(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Ningbo's investigation of Ecuador imported frozen South American white shrimp New Coronavirus nucleic acid test was negative

  China News Service Ningbo, July 14 (by trainee reporter Li Dian) In the past few days, Dalian and Xiamen Customs have detected new coronavirus on the outer packaging of frozen South American white shrimp products imported from Ecuador, which has attracted people's attention. On the 14th, the reporter learned from the Ningbo Municipal Health Commission (hereinafter referred to as the "Ningbo Health Commission") that the department took the lead and the Ningbo multi-sectoral united to urgently investigate multiple batches of Ecuador imported frozen white shrimp. The sampling test results showed that the nucleic acid test results of the new coronavirus were all negative.

The inspector took samples on the outer packaging of frozen white shrimp imported from Ecuador. Photo courtesy of Ningbo Health Committee

  On July 10, at the press conference of the Joint Defense and Joint Control Mechanism of the State Council, the General Administration of Customs announced that the new coronavirus nucleic acid was detected positive from three outer packaging samples of frozen South American white shrimp produced by Ecuadorian enterprises.

  In order to eliminate the hidden dangers of imported frozen white shrimp from Ecuador, from July 11th, the relevant departments of Ningbo began to comprehensively investigate the imported frozen white shrimp products from Ecuador. As of 18:00 on the 11th, 349 business units were investigated, and frozen shrimps of 29 business units were taken off the shelf for storage or persuaded, totaling 22167.45 kg.

The inspection staff samples the pharyngeal swabs from the management and transportation personnel. Photo courtesy of Ningbo Health Committee

  Subsequently, led by the Ningbo Health and Health Commission, coordinated by the Ningbo market supervision department, the CDC and the market supervision bureau jointly teamed up to the existing self-existing areas of the city, including Haishu, Jiangbei, Zhenhai, Beilun, Yinzhou, Cixi, and Ninghai. The frozen white shrimp imported from Ecuador was tested for emergency sampling.

  It is reported that a total of 552 samples were collected in this investigation. Among them: 236 frozen shrimp body, 106 external packaging, 153 external environmental samples such as the inner wall of the freezer, 57 pharyngeal swab specimens of management and transportation personnel. At present, all samples have been tested for new coronavirus nucleic acid, and the results are negative. (Finish)