HARBIN, Dec 6 (NNN-XINHUA) – A total of 43 people were placed under quarantine, after a frozen-food sample in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province tested positive for COVID-19, local authorities said.
Authorities in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang Province, launched an emergency response after a third-party inspection agency found a frozen-food sample from a local trading company that tested positive for the virus on Friday.
As of 5.00 p.m. yesterday, 43 close contacts had been quarantined in designated places, and 109 were under observation at home.
A total of 1,350 samples from these people, food products and the surrounding environment, have been taken. The 989 samples tested so far all showed negative results.
Authorities disinfected and sealed off the processing and storage facilities of the frozen food products, and sealed up the related frozen food production materials and semi-finished products.
Also yesterday, authorities in Yaodu district, in the city of Linfen, north China’s Shanxi Province, announced, the outer packaging of imported fish product from a local farm-produce market tested positive for the virus.
