Tianjin has found the COVID-19 virus on a sample collected from the packaging of imported pig trotters, local authorities said Monday.
The city's COVID-19 prevention and control headquarters said that, during an inspection of imported cold-chain food, authorities detected the novel coronavirus in the samples taken from the packaging of pig trotters in a cold storage in Binhai New Area on Sunday. The food had been imported from Denmark.
Authorities have sealed the imported goods, which did not enter the market, and disinfected the environment. A total of 196 samples collected from the packaging of the frozen food and the environment tested negative for COVID-19 on Sunday.
Twenty-four people who had been in contact with the contaminated packaging are under quarantine. They have all tested negative for COVID-19 so far.