JAKARTA - The Government of Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, conducted an epidemiological investigation after allegations of COVID-19 in imported meat and frozen fish packages from Brazil and Vietnam.
Neither of the two products will be distributed to the market, according to local authorities, Saturday, November 29.
According to local authorities, samples of imported beef from Brazil had been taken from a frozen food warehouse in Donghu District and samples of frozen fish imported from Vietnam were taken in Jing'an District, according to local authorities.
Beef and fish have been isolated. Likewise, the warehouse has also been disinfected and the staff are quarantined.
As of Saturday, the local city government has conducted swab tests on 300 residents who live around the frozen warehouse in Donghu District.
A total of 295 employees tested negative, as did 4,550 packages of frozen meat.
Negative results were also obtained from 255 samples, 3,777 packages of frozen fish, and 866 warehouse employees in Jing'an District.
92.9 tonnes of frozen beef departed in two stages from Brazil on 12 and 19 June 2020.
Arrived in Shanghai on August 28 and 29, then arrived in Wuhan on September 18.
Meanwhile 19.2 tonnes of frozen fish arrived in Wuhan on September 7 after being imported from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
In November the Chinese government announced a suspension of frozen food imports from 109 countries.
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