Chinese authorities have found trading areas for meat and seafood in Beijing's wholesale food market to be severely contaminated with the coronavirus and suspect the area's low temperature and high humidity may have been contributing factors in a new outbreak, officials said.Getty Imagescapital tackles a resurgence of COVID-19 cases over the past week linked to the massive Xinfadi
wholesale food market, comprised of warehouses and trading halls in an area the size of nearly 160 soccer pitches. The city recorded a total of 158 confirmed cases up to Thursday since the new outbreak was detected last week. It reported 25 new cases on Friday. Chinese paramilitary police stand guard at barricaded entrances to the Xinfadi wholesale food market district in Beijing on Saturday.Most of the COVID-19 patients who work at the market serve at seafood and aquatic product stalls, followed by the beef and mutton section. Patients from the seafood market showed symptoms earlier than others, Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a daily briefing on Thursday.
What do you except when it’s not kept in fridges/freezer. It’s kept in open air exposed to all sorts of bacteria. What do you want it to remain fresh .
Quick....bring their students back ASAP.
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If the Chinese government can be believe which they can't, the cases are relatively small.
People should now question what they are buying on eBay and Amazon. China is purposefully exporting their pandemic
Unfollowing SMH now
Australian newspapers should be free, I can read any article somewhere else without paying.....smh loses
did you mean, dogs, cats, bats!
The Chinese should be banned from trading and consuming meat until the world gets rid of the pandemic.