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A new type of corona virus (Covid-19) was reported to have been detected in three samples taken from ice cream in Tianjin, China.
Tianjin Daqiaodao Food Co. Samples taken from the ice creams produced by the company were sent to the municipality’s disease control center for testing on Tuesday and Wednesday.
As a result of the tests, Covid-19 was detected in the ice cream samples. While all the products were seized, 1,662 company employees were quarantined and subjected to nucleic acid testing.
Additionally, it was reported that 812 of the ice creams were distributed to other cities. Authorities are working to determine how the virus was transmitted.
IS THE VIRUS SPREAD ON FROZEN FOODS?
The detection of coronavirus in samples taken from ice cream in Tianjin has alarmed the city, but discussions of frozen goods in the city are not new.
In Tianjin, one of China’s largest port cities, a cold storage employee who came into contact with a frozen pork imported into Germany last November had coronavirus.
The Chinese authorities began collecting samples regularly from cold storage warehouses and decided to suspend imports if viruses were detected more than three times in the imported company’s products.
Similarly, in December, when coronavirus was found in frozen food, the Chinese Ministry of Transportation produced a guide with a series of measures to prevent the spread of the virus through the frozen food chain.
The fact that the vaccines produced for the coronavirus are also stored and transported in freezing temperatures, brought the possibility of accelerating the spread of the virus through these shipments around the world.
