Tianjin Binhai New Area: The positive frozen pork knuckles came from Bremerhaven, Germany

(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Tianjin Binhai New Area: The positive frozen pork knuckles came from Bremerhaven

　　China News Service, Tianjin, November 8th (Reporter Zhang Daozheng) Liang Chunzao, deputy commander and deputy head of Tianjin Binhai New Area Prevention and Control Headquarters, said on the 8th that on November 7, Binhai New Area Prevention and Control Headquarters received Shandong Province The Decheng District, Decheng District, Dezhou City, the cold chain food COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control work class notified that the new coronary pneumonia virus nucleic acid test of the frozen pig front elbow packaging imported from Germany through the Dongjiang Free Trade Port Area was weakly positive.

This batch of frozen pork knuckles that were positive came from Bremerhaven, Germany.

　　On the same day, Tianjin held the 150th press conference on the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic in Tianjin.

Liang Chunzao introduced at the press conference that after receiving the report, the Binhai New Area immediately followed the emergency deployment of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government, and immediately followed up with Tianjin Customs, Dongjiang Free Trade Port Area and related enterprises to track the destination of containers and goods; Time to rush to the scene to investigate, identify the exposed persons and transfer them to the isolation point for centralized isolation, and conduct nucleic acid sampling and testing on the exposed persons and the environment.

Liang Chunzao, deputy commander-in-chief and deputy district head of Tianjin Binhai New Area Prevention and Control Command, introduced the situation.

Photo by Zhang Daozheng

　　At 2 a.m. on November 8, the Binhai New Area CDC laboratory reported a positive nucleic acid test result of a cold storage door handle in an environmental sample, and then reported a positive nucleic acid test result of a stevedore worker who was transferred from 120 to Tianjin Haihe Hospital.

The main leaders of the Binhai New Area District Committee and the district government rushed to Hangu Street overnight to command and dispatch, to seal and control a community on Hangu Street where people who tested positive lived, and to conduct large-scale nucleic acid sampling and testing on residents of the community.

At the same time, the relevant cold storage was sealed and checked for the first time, and the relevant people, vehicles and objects involved were screened.

At 7:00 on November 8, Haihe Hospital reported a confirmed case of novel coronavirus pneumonia.

　　"This batch of frozen pork knuckles that were positive came from the Port of Bremerhaven, Germany. They arrived at the Pacific Wharf of Tianjin Port at 0:45 on October 19. The containers with this batch of cargo were unloaded at the cold box of the Pacific Wharf at 11:16 On the site, the whole process of unloading is for the whole container to be unloaded by machine, without opening the container and no personnel contact." Liang Chunzao said.

　　According to reports, the cargo was placed at Pacific Terminal from October 19th to November 4th. At 0:37 on November 4, the cargo was lifted from Pacific Terminal Company and transported to Tianjin Binhai New Area at 11:30. Tianjin Hailian Cold Chain Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Hailian Cold Storage”) in the Eco-City unpacked 2020 cartons of this batch of goods for storage in the cold storage. At 12:30 on November 5th, the 28.10603 tons of goods were all loaded into containers and all were transported to Dezhou, Shandong by vehicles arranged by Beijing Sanchuan Jinzhou Trading Co., Ltd. (Finish)