China Zero Covid Xiamen Confirms Fresh Seafood For Coronavirus

Since the pandemic, China has relied on mass testing, extensive quarantines and emergency lockdowns to stamp out any resurgence of the coronavirus. But the highly infectious Omicron variant has posed a challenge to China’s strictest anti-Covid measures. In Xiamen’s Jimei district, authorities issued a notice last month ordering both “fishermen and their catch” to be tested for Covid. It said that since June, “illegal trade and illegal contact” between fishermen in Fujian province and overseas vessels had spread Covid to China, “causing great social harm”. Xiamen reported 10 Covid cases on Friday, bringing the total number in the latest outbreak to 65. The port city conducted three rounds of mass testing for its 5 million residents, starting on Wednesday. Taihainet.com, a state-run news website in Fujian, said the testing requirement for both fishermen and their catch was implemented “to strengthen the maritime epidemic defense line and strictly prevent the introduction of the epidemic from the sea.” . Jin Dongyan, a professor at the University of Hong Kong’s School of Biomedical Sciences, told CNN the policy was a “waste of resources”. “They should focus on the people and not the fish,” he said. According to Jin, testing the catch is “completely useless” because the chances of the fish testing positive and spreading the virus to humans were “very low”. “It is 100 or 1,000 times more likely that these fishermen were infected by other fishermen. There is no evidence that fish can transmit the virus,” he said. Chinese officials have previously blamed the country’s Covid-19 cases on a variety of imports, including frozen seafood, suggesting people could have fallen ill after handling contaminated packages. However, as of 2020 the World Health Organization has argued that there is no evidence that people can catch Covid from food or food packaging. And in January 2022, the Center for Animal Health and Welfare at the City University of Hong Kong said the risk of animal transmission of Covid was “negligible”. Previously, reports emerged of seafood, animals, fruit and even crops being tested for Covid in China. Authorities have also implemented strict measures by testing the packaging of food imports for traces of the virus, even suspending imports from companies that test positive and causing delays and blocked ports. including the lockdown of an Ikea branch in Shanghai this week after close contact with a Covid-19 case at the site and the lockdown of more than 80,000 tourists in the resort of Hainan last week to contain an outbreak. CNN’s Beijing bureau contributed to this report.

title: “China Zero Covid Xiamen Confirms Fresh Seafood For Coronavirus Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-11” author: “Henry Adams”

Since the pandemic, China has relied on mass testing, extensive quarantines and emergency lockdowns to stamp out any resurgence of the coronavirus. But the highly infectious Omicron variant has posed a challenge to China’s strictest anti-Covid measures. In Xiamen’s Jimei district, authorities issued a notice last month ordering both “fishermen and their catch” to be tested for Covid. It said that since June, “illegal trade and illegal contact” between fishermen in Fujian province and overseas vessels had spread Covid to China, “causing great social harm”. Xiamen reported 10 Covid cases on Friday, bringing the total number in the latest outbreak to 65. The port city conducted three rounds of mass testing for its 5 million residents, starting on Wednesday. Taihainet.com, a state-run news website in Fujian, said the testing requirement for both fishermen and their catch was implemented “to strengthen the maritime epidemic defense line and strictly prevent the introduction of the epidemic from the sea.” . Jin Dongyan, a professor at the University of Hong Kong’s School of Biomedical Sciences, told CNN the policy was a “waste of resources”. “They should focus on the people and not the fish,” he said. According to Jin, testing the catch is “completely useless” because the chances of the fish testing positive and spreading the virus to humans were “very low”. “It is 100 or 1,000 times more likely that these fishermen were infected by other fishermen. There is no evidence that fish can transmit the virus,” he said. Chinese officials have previously blamed the country’s Covid-19 cases on a variety of imports, including frozen seafood, suggesting people could have fallen ill after handling contaminated packages. However, as of 2020 the World Health Organization has argued that there is no evidence that people can catch Covid from food or food packaging. And in January 2022, the Center for Animal Health and Welfare at the City University of Hong Kong said the risk of animal transmission of Covid was “negligible”. Previously, reports emerged of seafood, animals, fruit and even crops being tested for Covid in China. Authorities have also implemented strict measures by testing the packaging of food imports for traces of the virus, even suspending imports from companies that test positive and causing delays and blocked ports. including the lockdown of an Ikea branch in Shanghai this week after close contact with a Covid-19 case at the site and the lockdown of more than 80,000 tourists in the resort of Hainan last week to contain an outbreak. CNN’s Beijing bureau contributed to this report.

title: “China Zero Covid Xiamen Confirms Fresh Seafood For Coronavirus Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-12” author: “Marion Cheng”

Since the pandemic, China has relied on mass testing, extensive quarantines and emergency lockdowns to stamp out any resurgence of the coronavirus. But the highly infectious Omicron variant has posed a challenge to China’s strictest anti-Covid measures. In Xiamen’s Jimei district, authorities issued a notice last month ordering both “fishermen and their catch” to be tested for Covid. It said that since June, “illegal trade and illegal contact” between fishermen in Fujian province and overseas vessels had spread Covid to China, “causing great social harm”. Xiamen reported 10 Covid cases on Friday, bringing the total number in the latest outbreak to 65. The port city conducted three rounds of mass testing for its 5 million residents, starting on Wednesday. Taihainet.com, a state-run news website in Fujian, said the testing requirement for both fishermen and their catch was implemented “to strengthen the maritime epidemic defense line and strictly prevent the introduction of the epidemic from the sea.” . Jin Dongyan, a professor at the University of Hong Kong’s School of Biomedical Sciences, told CNN the policy was a “waste of resources”. “They should focus on the people and not the fish,” he said. According to Jin, testing the catch is “completely useless” because the chances of the fish testing positive and spreading the virus to humans were “very low”. “It is 100 or 1,000 times more likely that these fishermen were infected by other fishermen. There is no evidence that fish can transmit the virus,” he said. Chinese officials have previously blamed the country’s Covid-19 cases on a variety of imports, including frozen seafood, suggesting people could have fallen ill after handling contaminated packages. However, as of 2020 the World Health Organization has argued that there is no evidence that people can catch Covid from food or food packaging. And in January 2022, the Center for Animal Health and Welfare at the City University of Hong Kong said the risk of animal transmission of Covid was “negligible”. Previously, reports emerged of seafood, animals, fruit and even crops being tested for Covid in China. Authorities have also implemented strict measures by testing the packaging of food imports for traces of the virus, even suspending imports from companies that test positive and causing delays and blocked ports. including the lockdown of an Ikea branch in Shanghai this week after close contact with a Covid-19 case at the site and the lockdown of more than 80,000 tourists in the resort of Hainan last week to contain an outbreak. CNN’s Beijing bureau contributed to this report.

title: “China Zero Covid Xiamen Confirms Fresh Seafood For Coronavirus Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-16” author: “Carolyn Lowry”

Since the pandemic, China has relied on mass testing, extensive quarantines and emergency lockdowns to stamp out any resurgence of the coronavirus. But the highly infectious Omicron variant has posed a challenge to China’s strictest anti-Covid measures. In Xiamen’s Jimei district, authorities issued a notice last month ordering both “fishermen and their catch” to be tested for Covid. It said that since June, “illegal trade and illegal contact” between fishermen in Fujian province and overseas vessels had spread Covid to China, “causing great social harm”. Xiamen reported 10 Covid cases on Friday, bringing the total number in the latest outbreak to 65. The port city conducted three rounds of mass testing for its 5 million residents, starting on Wednesday. Taihainet.com, a state-run news website in Fujian, said the testing requirement for both fishermen and their catch was implemented “to strengthen the maritime epidemic defense line and strictly prevent the introduction of the epidemic from the sea.” . Jin Dongyan, a professor at the University of Hong Kong’s School of Biomedical Sciences, told CNN the policy was a “waste of resources”. “They should focus on the people and not the fish,” he said. According to Jin, testing the catch is “completely useless” because the chances of the fish testing positive and spreading the virus to humans were “very low”. “It is 100 or 1,000 times more likely that these fishermen were infected by other fishermen. There is no evidence that fish can transmit the virus,” he said. Chinese officials have previously blamed the country’s Covid-19 cases on a variety of imports, including frozen seafood, suggesting people could have fallen ill after handling contaminated packages. However, as of 2020 the World Health Organization has argued that there is no evidence that people can catch Covid from food or food packaging. And in January 2022, the Center for Animal Health and Welfare at the City University of Hong Kong said the risk of animal transmission of Covid was “negligible”. Previously, reports emerged of seafood, animals, fruit and even crops being tested for Covid in China. Authorities have also implemented strict measures by testing the packaging of food imports for traces of the virus, even suspending imports from companies that test positive and causing delays and blocked ports. including the lockdown of an Ikea branch in Shanghai this week after close contact with a Covid-19 case at the site and the lockdown of more than 80,000 tourists in the resort of Hainan last week to contain an outbreak. CNN’s Beijing bureau contributed to this report.