‘China's disease control authority said on Saturday (Oct 17) that contact with frozen food packaging contaminated by living new coronavirus could cause infection. The conclusion came as the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) detected and isolated living coronavirus on the outer packaging of frozen cod during efforts to trace the virus in an outbreak reported last week in the city of Qingdao, the agency said on its website.
‘The finding, a world first, suggests it is possible for the virus to be conveyed over long distances via frozen goods, it said.’
Read here (Straits Times, Oct 17, 2020)
