A worker walking past nucleic acid testing laboratories in Qingdao, Shandong province. Chinese biotech company BGI Group upgraded the laboratories and boosted their maximum daily testing capacity from 2,000 to 40,000 samples on last week. - China Daily/Asian News Network
BEIJING, Oct 19 (China Daily/ANN): The Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced it had detected live Covid-19 (coronavirus) on the outer packaging of imported frozen cod in the eastern coastal city of Qingdao, Shandong province, but confirmed that the public was at low risk of infection from touching or eating cold-chain food.
The CDC announced the finding on its website on Saturday.
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