43 quarantined in China after Covid-19 found in frozen food

Beijing, Dec 6 : At least 43 people have been placed under quarantine after a frozen-food sample in China’s Heilongjiang province tested positive for the novel coronavirus, local authorities said.
On Saturday, the authorities in the provincial capital of Harbin launched an emergency response after a third-party inspection agency found the frozen-food sample from a local trading company that tested positive for the virus the previous day, Xinhua news agency reported.
As of 5 p.m. Saturday, 43 close contacts had been quarantined in designated places and 109 were under observation at home, according to the Harbin epidemic response headquarters.
A total of 1,350 samples from these people, food products and the surrounding environment have been taken.
The 989 samples tested so far all showed negative results.
Authorities have disinfected and sealed off the processing and storage facilities of the frozen-food products and sealed up the related frozen-food production materials and semi-finished products.