According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, it turns out that it was not German pork knuckles that caused the recent new crown infection in Tianjin, but rather North American pig heads. China is now stepping up precautions against imports that may be contaminated.
Two weeks ago, when a new infection with the new coronavirus appeared in Tianjin, officials suspected that a stevedore who had been carrying German pork knuckle in its packaging had caused the infection. However, the Tianjin CDC has now discovered that the new infection in Tianjin was not caused by German pork knuckles, but by North American pig’s heads. It was a North American pig’s head, whose packaging carried the virus that infected a stevedore. Zhang Ying, deputy director of the Tianjin CDC, told a news conference that the stevedore, wearing the same pair of gloves, carried first the pig’s head and then the pig’s elbow. The Global Times concluded that it was a North American pig’s head that infected the German elbow.
When the new infection first appeared in Tianjin, the Chinese suspected that pig’s knuckles imported from Germany were the culprit. But the German government immediately responded, rejecting the Chinese suspicion and saying that German pork knuckles were “unlikely to cause infection.
The current Chinese official view is that the neo-crown virus pandemic did not start in Wuhan, but may have been brought to China through frozen foods. The People’s Daily, China’s official media, is now spreading this view. China is stepping up precautionary measures on imported products that may be contaminated.
After a new infection appeared in the cargo department of Shanghai Pudong Airport, officials tested 17,000 cargo employees at the airport. This time, officials found that the virus was again coming from North America. Allegedly, it was a container from North America that infected two stevedores. They later tested positive for the new coronavirus.
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