Many places report epidemics related to imported fruits and clothing! How to prevent it? Remember these nine points!

On April 21, Beijing Fengtai reported that a batch of imported dragon fruit packaging tested positive for nucleic acid. Since April this year, many places have reported that imported fruits, cold chain foods and other packaging tested positive, and many places have found that non-cold chain items tested positive. What is the probability of Omicron being transmitted from animals to humans? How to eat fruit more safely?

11 people infected after testing positive for cherry tomato packaging in Shenyang

On April 18, Shenyang reported that a batch of cherry tomatoes were found to be positive for COVID-19 on the inner and outer packaging. The relevant contact persons were immediately screened and isolated. During the medical observation period at the centralized isolation point, routine nucleic acid testing found 11 cases of COVID-19 positive infection.

Many places report epidemics related to imported clothing

In addition to fruits and cold chain foods that tested positive, non-cold chain items were also found to test positive in many places.

An infected person in Changshu tested positive for a Korean sweatshirt purchased online

On April 2, the Changshu COVID-19 Prevention and Control Command Center in Jiangsu reported the situation of a confirmed case, Yang, who was reported on March 28. After repeated epidemiological investigation and testing, four Korean hoodies purchased online in his wardrobe tested positive, while the results of multiple nucleic acid tests of other environments, close contacts, secondary close contacts and general contacts were all negative. Combined with the domestic cases of Korean imported clothing, after comprehensive analysis, this case is related to online purchases of Korean clothing.

A staff member of a Korean imported clothing store in Dalian was infected

The Liaoning Dalian COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control headquarters reported on April 2 that the gene sequence of a new positive case in Dalian on April 1 was the Omicron variant (BA.2 evolutionary branch), which is different from the current round of epidemic and previous local and overseas imported virus strains. The positive case is a clerk in a Korean imported clothing store. The Korean imported clothing and the inner surface of the packaging bags he operated were tested positive for the single gene of the new coronavirus nucleic acid. The report pointed out that the possibility of infection due to contact with imported items contaminated by the new coronavirus cannot be ruled out.

A garment factory in Dalian tested positive for imported fabrics, 18 people were infected

The Dalian Health Commission reported on April 17 that Dalian had two new asymptomatic infections, who were close contacts of asymptomatic infections on April 14. The number of cases associated with a garment processing factory in Longwangmiao Village, Youyi Street, Jinpu New District, Dalian has increased to 18. On April 15, the district's COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control headquarters reported that a garment factory in Longwangmiao Village, Youyi Street, had fabrics imported from neighboring countries, and some of the purchase channels came from a garment company. At present, a large number of positive tests were detected on the inner packaging and surface of the imported fabrics of a garment factory, and the fabrics of a garment company were also tested positive. It can be basically inferred that this was the origin of the epidemic.

An imported clothing store in Beijing was linked to an epidemic that infected 33 people

Beijing reported on April 6 that two batches of clothing goods from abroad were found to be positive for the new coronavirus nucleic acid. As of 24:00 on April 20, 33 people had been infected in the clothing store involved, including store employees, customers, their families and cohabitants.

What is the probability of Omicron being transmitted from objects to humans?

Laboratory studies by researchers at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine in Japan found that the Omicron strain can survive longer on plastic surfaces or human skin than other early coronavirus variants.

According to the results of the biological research preprint website bioRxiv, the researchers tested the average survival time of the new coronavirus strain on plastic surfaces at room temperature, which was 56 hours for the original strain, 114 hours for the Delta strain, and 193.5 hours for the Omicron strain, indicating that the Omicron strain can survive on plastic surfaces for as long as 8 days. In addition, the survival time of the Omicron strain on the surface of the human skin model is also the longest.

How should individuals protect themselves?

The Omicron strain is more contagious, so it is crucial to do a good job of protecting people and animals and strengthen epidemic prevention in the contact links between people and animals.

How to protect yourself? Nine tips to keep in mind!

Source: Beijing Daily WeChat Official Account

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Editor: Zhang Li

Internship: Li Junyao