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China is in an emergency with the corona 19 virus out of imported frozen food. Following the Ecuadorian shrimp, this time the virus came from chicken wings imported from Brazil. However, the World Health Organization believes that the possibility of infection through food is low.

This is correspondent Song Wook from Beijing.

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iron gate of the wholesale market in Shenzhen, southern China, is firmly down.

This is due to the detection of the Corona 19 virus on the surface of frozen chicken wings imported from Brazil.

The chicken wing in question is a product of Aurora, a large Brazilian meat company, and this is the first time Corona 19 has emerged from Brazilian frozen meat imported by China.

[Shenzhen citizen: I am not going to buy frozen chicken wings at the market anymore. It's best to buy fresh ones.]

Frozen shrimp from Ecuador continues to cause problems.

This time, it came from a package of frozen Ecuadorian shrimp sold in a market in central Xi'an, and the virus has been detected in all parts of China since the beginning of July.

The World Health Organization, WHO, however, sees the possibility of transmission through food is low.

[Mike Ryan/WHO Emergency Response Team Leader: There is no evidence that food or food networks are contributing to the spread of Corona 19.]

Chinese experts raised the link last month that a large number of employees of a seafood processing company in Dalian were infected with Corona 19 and imported seafood. There is.

[Wuzun Fox / Chief Expert of the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: It can be said that the cause of transmission is more likely (than other factors) to be contaminated imported seafood.]

China, desperate to prevent the re-proliferation of corona, strengthens quarantine on imported food With all-around investigations and some import bans, tensions are not slowing down.

(Video coverage: Choi Deok-hyun, Video editing: Jeon Min-gyu)