India-China Import, Dec 20: China has suspended importing seafood from an Indian company after three frozen fish packages tested positive for COVID, local customs authorities said on Friday.
The frozen cuttlefish packages imported from a Kolkata-based company tested positive for the coronavirus, the General Administration of Customs of China said in a statement.
State media reports said that it wasn’t the first time that frozen food like fish in this scenario, imported from India had tested positive for COVID in China. Earlier this month, packages of frozen hairtail fish tested positive in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province in north China.
The suspension of import is likely to be followed by testing of all workers involved in the import of this particular batch of cuttlefish. Local authorities had subsequently launched nucleic acid testing and centralised quarantine for the workers involved, the report said, adding results of all nucleic acid tests were negative.
“Two packages of frozen fish imported from #India tested positive for the #coronavirus on Saturday in Shenyang, NE China’s Liaoning Province. Local authorities have launched epidemiologist investigation. None of the fish has entered the local market,” claimed Global Times.
Two packages of frozen fish imported from #India tested positive for the #coronavirus on Saturday in Shenyang, NE China's Liaoning Province. Local authorities have launched epidemiologist investigation. None of the fish has entered local market. pic.twitter.com/Beif3XNXbU
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) December 20, 2020
Earlier in November, three imported frozen food packaging samples tested positive for COVID-19 in Wuhan.
The Wuhan health commission informed that two of the three samples were taken from frozen Brazilian beef stored in a refrigerated warehouse.
The third sample was taken from frozen Basa fish from Vietnam in another warehouse.
