World Coronavirus Dispatch: China finds infection risk in frozen food packs

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China finds Covid infection risk on frozen food packaging:China's disease control authority said on Saturday that contact with frozen food packaging contaminated by living new coronavirus could cause infection.The conclusion came as the Chinese Center 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 finding, a world first, suggests it is possible for the virus to be conveyed over long distances via frozen goods. Read more here 

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