China Finds Imported Beer From The US Tainted With COVID-19

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JAKARTA - The Tinjin City Center for Controlling and Prevention of Contagious Diseases (CDC) found imported beer tainted with COVID-19.

The test results of a beer sample imported from the United States in Ninghe District, Tianjin City, came back positive for COVID-19, the CDC statement said.

According to the local CDC, quoted by Antara on the OneTube news portal, Wednesday, January 27, the beer was detected positive before it was thrown on the market.

Apart from beer, several foods and drinks that were to be marketed ahead of the Chinese New Year celebrations in China were also found to contain COVID-19.

In Liangxi District, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, several imported cherries were also contaminated with COVID-19.

The same thing was found at an importing company in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province.

Then CDC officers from Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province, also found the inside of a container of frozen red shrimp imported from Argentina contaminated with COVID-19.

Previously, COVID-19 was also found in an ice cream company in Tianjin City whose raw material was milk imported from New Zealand and Ukraine.

CDC China Deputy Director Feng Zijian was quoted as saying that imported goods that test positive for COVID-19 do not necessarily transmit the disease.

According to him, it depends on the content of the virus that contaminates the product, whether it is active or not.

If the virus content is also very low, he continued, then these products will not be at risk of transmitting COVID-19.