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WUHAN, Nov. 29 (Xinhua): The central Chinese city of Wuhan has found that three samples of imported frozen food packages tested positive for Covid-19 (coronavirus), the municipal health commission said on Sunday.
According to the commission, two samples of frozen beef from Brazil were taken in a refrigerated warehouse and the other of frozen Basa fish from Vietnam in another warehouse.
Local authorities sealed the products, quarantined them and performed nucleic acid tests on relevant personnel who had direct contact with the food. So far, all the results have been negative.
The frozen food shipments from which the contaminated samples were taken had not been placed on the market.
China has stepped up efforts to block Covid-19 through imported food, and the Ministry of Transport published a guideline in mid-November to prevent transmission of the virus through imported cold chain food in road transport. and water.
The State Council’s joint prevention and control mechanism against Covid-19 has also presented a plan to carry out a traceable, closed-loop and full-chain management of imported food from the cold chain.
Meanwhile, an international digital commerce conference kicked off on Saturday in central China’s Wuhan City to discuss innovation and development in the digital commerce sector.
The 2020 Global Digital Commerce Conference, the largest and most comprehensive business and economic event for Wuhan since the epidemic, has attracted envoys from 37 countries and representatives from hundreds of companies.
Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, is fertile ground for digital commerce with its advantages in the market, factors of production, science and education, said Lu Yong, vice president of the Federation of Industry and Commerce of China.
“The event will help improve Wuhan’s commercial circulation advantages and accelerate the development of its digital commerce industry.”
The XI Wuhan Commodity Fair will be held during the trade conference, which will last until December 6, both online and offline.
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