China's Pingxiang launches testing after residents buy shrimp possibly carrying COVID-19
Global Times
Source: Global Times Published: 2020/7/15 11:18:40
Pingxiang in East China's Jiangxi Province released a statement which stressed that some locals had purchased Ecuadorian white shrimp imported in the same batch with those that tested positive for coronavirus earlier.
According to the statement, some consumers in Pingxiang had bought frozen Ecuadorian white shrimp via Hunan-based e-commerce platform Xingshengyouxuan. Samples taken from the inner walls of containers and outer packaging in the same batch of imported shrimp have tested positive for coronavirus.
The city government has sealed relevant products, asked people who had come in contact with the products to separate themselves from the public and carried out nucleic acid testing for products, personnel and environment related to the virus discovery.
So far, abnormalities have not occurred in the city, read the notice, which urged citizens not to panic.
An employee at the virus prevention and control headquarters in Pingxiang clarified that local frozen shrimp in Pingxiang has not tested positive for the virus, and the notice is intended to prompt consumers to cooperate with COVID-19 screening, yicai.com reported.
Xingshengyouxuan also published a statement, saying it has carried out comprehensive nucleic acid testing on relevant shrimp products, warehouse sites and warehouse employees, and no positive results have been returned from those tests.
Xingshengyouxuan had not responded to an interview request from the Global Times as of press time.
On July 3, six tests on the packaging and interior of containers from three Ecuadorian shrimp producers were returned positive. According a customs statement on July 10, the three companies' container environments and outer packaging had risked of coronavirus contamination.
Imports from relevant firms have now been temporarily halted.
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