These frozen chicken wings have tested positive for COVID-19

Frozen chicken wings imported from Brazil to China have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, Chinese officials recently said.

What happened?

• Officials found the coronavirus inside a sample of frozen chicken wings that had been imported from Brazil to Shenzhen city, Guangdong Province, Southern China.
• The city’s government said it discovered the infection during a routine screening of the imported food.
• Health officials in Shenzhen traced and tested anyone who may come into contact with the imported chicken wings. All the results came back negative, CNN reports.
• Nearby and related products were screened and tested. All tests came back negative.
• The location where the chicken wings were stored was disinfected.
• Authorities now plan to review other products connected to the brand of chicken wings, CNN reports.

Bigger picture:

• There has been some concern about coronavirus being found within food packaging. In fact, coronavirus has been found in shrimp packaging from Ecuador at a Chinese restaurant, Reuters reports.
• Back in mid-July, reports surfaced that COVID-19 had been found in shrimp packaging, which I wrote about for Deseret.com.
• Similarly, China tied an outbreak of COVID-19 in Beijing to imported salmon, The New York Times reports.