The influx of some of the milk dates involved in the epidemic in Zaozhuang, Shandong Province into markets in many places has recently attracted attention.

On January 31, Sichuan Deyang, Guangyuan, and Luzhou successively notified that related products had flowed into the local area through “online shopping”, and some samples tested positive for the new coronavirus nucleic acid.

  In addition, The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) learned from an authoritative person in Ningnan County, Liangshan Prefecture that some of the milk dates involved in the epidemic have flowed into the county. The delivery address is a bathing center. The local area is currently investigating relevant personnel.

According to incomplete statistics by The Paper, the milk dates involved in the epidemic have affected at least 15 provinces and cities including Shandong, Zhejiang, Shanxi, Tianjin, Guizhou, Jiangsu, Henan, Heilongjiang, Chongqing, Jiangxi, Anhui, Hunan, Fujian, Shaanxi, and Sichuan.

  Reports of investigations of epidemic-related milk dates in many places in Sichuan

  On the morning of January 31, the official Weibo of the Health Commission of Deyang City, Sichuan Province notified that after receiving information about the influx of epidemic-related milk dates from Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, the local area quickly initiated investigations on the influx of epidemic-related milk dates, Comprehensive investigation and disposal of relevant personnel and the environment.

According to the investigation, all the milk dates involved in the epidemic that flowed into the Deyang market were purchased online, involving 5 districts (cities and counties) in Jingyang District, Guanghan City, Shifang City, Mianzhu City and Zhongjiang County of Deyang City.

  At present, sampling and testing of the milk dates involved in the epidemic that have flowed into the Deyang market has revealed that 3 samples tested positive for the new coronavirus nucleic acid, and the rest were negative. In addition, the relevant contacts and environmental sampling test results were negative.

All the milk date products involved in the investigation have been disinfected and sealed, the relevant contacts have all implemented isolation control measures, and the relevant environment has been fully disinfected.

  Soon, the Guangyuan City Health and Health Commission notified through the official Weibo that some of the milk dates involved in the epidemic were purchased online, involving 5 counties in Guangyuan City (Cangxi County, Wangcang County, Jiange County, Qingchuan County, Li District), a total of 15 bags of 3860 grams, 12 online shoppers.

At present, after sampling and testing the milk jujube products that flowed into Guangyuan City, 2 samples tested positive for the new coronavirus nucleic acid (2 in Lizhou District), and the remaining samples were all negative; the relevant contacts and environmental sampling and testing results were all Is negative.

At present, all the milk date products involved in the investigation have been disinfected and sealed, 247 related contacts have all implemented isolation control measures, and the relevant environment has been fully disinfected.

  In the afternoon of the same day, the official website of the Luzhou Municipal Health Commission notified that the city received information on the influx of two batches of epidemic-related food into the city on the evening of January 29, Shandong Zaozhuang milk jujube and Heilongjiang Zhengda chicken meatballs.

After investigation, Shandong Zaozhuang milk dates flowed into 7 districts and counties of the city, and Heilongjiang Zhengda chicken meatballs flowed into Longmatan District.

As of 12:00 on the 31st, sampling and testing of two batches of epidemic-related foods that flowed into the city showed that: 2 samples of Zaozhuang milk dates in Shandong Province tested positive for new coronavirus nucleic acid (1 in Jiangyang District, 1 in Xuyong County) Copies), the rest are all negative; relevant contacts and environmental sampling of new coronavirus nucleic acid test results are all negative.

  The Paper noted that an online document showed that some milk jujube products flowed into Ningnan County, Liangshan Prefecture through online shopping, and the delivery address was a local bathing center, "persons who have been to the bathing center from January 19 to 29" It should take the initiative to report and cooperate with verification and control.

The document was signed as "Ningnan County Emergency Headquarters for Response to the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic Situation" and was issued on January 30.

On the morning of January 31, The Paper confirmed from an authoritative person in Ningnan County that the document was true and related investigations were in progress.

At least 15 provinces and cities were affected, and many milk date samples were positive

  According to a report from the “Daiwan Daily”, on January 5, 2021, Shandong Jiuxu Biotechnology Co., Ltd. purchased 10 tons of imported whey powder from Tianjin Port on December 25, 2020 to be used as raw material for milk date production.

After testing, the nucleic acid test results of this batch of whey powder were positive.

  According to notifications issued by various localities, the milk dates involved in the epidemic that entered the market this time were produced by Dongjiuxu Biotechnology Co., Ltd.

When the Tianjin Municipal Government Office’s official Weibo reported on the investigation of milk dates flowing into the city on January 30, it revealed that the origin of the milk dates involved in the epidemic was Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province. The whey powder imported from Ukraine before the epidemic was the same batch of imports.

  After receiving information about the influx of epidemic-related milk dates processed by imported whey powder in Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, emergency investigations were carried out in many places.

According to The Paper, as of noon on January 31, except for Jinan and Yantai in Shandong Province, the milk dates involved in the epidemic have affected at least Zhejiang, Shanxi, Tianjin, Guizhou, Jiangsu, Henan, Heilongjiang, Chongqing, Jiangxi, 14 provinces and cities including Anhui, Hunan, Fujian, Shaanxi and Sichuan.

At present, except for Heilongjiang that has negative nucleic acid tests for inflow milk jujube samples, and Shaanxi and Henan are still tracking related packages, all other provinces and cities have reports of "nucleic acid test positive for milk jujube samples".

  How dangerous are the milk dates involved in the epidemic that flow into many places?

Earlier, when the Guizhou Provincial Health Commission notified the investigation of the epidemic-related milk dates, the new coronavirus generally survives in the natural environment for about 7 days and is more sensitive to heat.

In a dry environment, the virus is less likely to survive for a long time.

Since the whey powder used in the production and processing of milk dates is a dry, non-cold-chain food stored at room temperature, the batch of infected milk dates has been stored at room temperature for more than one month from the import of raw materials, processing and production to consumers. , And as of now, there have been no case reports of direct contact with the product in Shandong and across the country, nor have there been reports of live viruses isolated from this batch of products. Therefore, although the product is positive for nucleic acid viruses, it is infectious Small, so the risk of new coronary pneumonia infection caused by this product is not high.

  The Paper noted that on January 19, the Shizhong District of Zaozhuang City issued the "Notice on the Disposal of the Positive Environmental Nucleic Acid Test Results of an Enterprise's Imported Whey Powder", which showed that three on-site environmental samples from the warehouse of the involved enterprise tested positive.

On-site control of the enterprises involved has been carried out, production and sales have been suspended, production sites have been temporarily closed, all existing products have been sealed, and the enterprise environment has been terminally disinfected.

The relevant contacts found in the preliminary investigation were isolated and observed, and the initial nucleic acid test results were all negative.

  Reporter He Liquan