Can Covid-19 be spread through frozen food or freight packaging?


Safe to eat: A woman looking at frozen food products in a supermarket in Beijing. Reuters

China and New Zealand had a Covid-19 scare this week – both from imported frozen food packaging contaminated with the novel coronavirus and possible imported freight.That has raised – again – the question: Can Covid 19 be spread through frozen food or freight packaging?

Here’s what has happened and what experts say about it:

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