Alice F. Hyke
Virus was detected on ice cream made in the city of Tianjin, eastern China, prompting the authorities to order a recall.
Daqiaodao Food Co., Ltd. in Tianjin, bordering Beijing, has been frozen and staff are undergoing testing for Covid-19, the city government said.
One resident was sampled for the Covid-19 test in Beijing on January 17 Photo: AP.
Most of the 29,000 cartons of the above batch of ice cream have yet to leave the factory.
The drastic quarantine strategy has helped China almost completely stop the chain of nCoV infection in the community, but new outbreaks have started to appear since December 2020, raising concerns, as they are located near
Shijiazhuang City, Xingtai and Langfang in Hebei Province, parts of the capital Beijing and other cities in northeastern China have imposed a travel restriction due to detection of infected pockets.
The National Health Committee of China commented that the spread was abnormally fast.
The Commission believes that the new infections originate from people or goods coming from abroad.
China on January 17 recorded 109 new infections, bringing the total to more than 88,000, of which more than 4,600 died.
