[Epoch Times, January 18, 2022](Reported by The Epoch Times reporter Lin Yan) The local governments of Beijing and Shenzhen said at a press conference on epidemic prevention and control on Monday (January 17) that the local Omicron (Omicron) ) The confirmed cause of the new crown was infection caused by contact with overseas parcels. The news caused an uproar among the public, and the level of distrust in the official epidemic report once again exploded.
As early as 2021, public opinion has repeatedly discussed whether parcels and express delivery will spread the virus, and how to receive parcels safely. In mainland China, these are actually topics that have been fired many times by the official media and have been refuted many times.
Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said on Monday that the express delivery in question was sent from Canada on January 7 and arrived in Beijing via the United States and Hong Kong. Contact with the inner surface of the package and other paper.
The nucleic acid test results of 22 environmental samples of the international mail, including 2 on the outer surface of the package, 2 on the inner surface and 8 of the paper samples in the document, were all positive, and Omicron variant strain-specific mutations were detected. site.
Liao Lingzhu, a spokesman for the Beijing Postal Administration, further stated that the express arrived at Beijing Capital Airport on January 10, and arrived at the Beijing port of a courier company on the 11th. Delivery after killing, the recipient is the confirmed case in Haidian, and the receipt time is 14:41 on January 11.
Chinese state media and web portals have reported that Beijing’s first Omicron case was caused by contact with foreign objects.
Coincidentally, the Shenzhen official said on Monday that a local confirmed patient was engaged in the receipt and delivery of overseas frozen reagents. On January 12, he contacted and split up the express delivery from North America, and did not take personal protection. The possibility of infection caused by exposure to imported new coronavirus-contaminated items. Virus traceability analysis is currently underway.
According to a CCTV report on Monday, Shenzhen launched the first green code for logistics and epidemic prevention goods, adding a “green code” to the packaging of all sterilized goods to become a “health code” for the goods. CCTV said, “The external defense is imported, the internal defense is rebound, and the characters are protected together.”
There is also news that Shenzhen has suspended receiving packages from North America.
Official media: “Guarantee that the cover of the email will not produce the new coronavirus”
Beijing’s first Omicron case was caused by contact with foreign objects, contradicting its past propaganda. According to a report by CCTV, the state television station of the Communist Party of China on November 21, 2021, the Beijing Airmail Processing Center terminal is responsible for imported parcels and international letters in Beijing, handling about 120,000 imported parcels and international letters every day.
When international mail is loaded from the airport, the first round of alcohol spraying is carried out. After entering the processing site, the customs personnel will verify and unblock the mail car, and the mail package will be disinfected for the second time.
The international mail demolition area implements closed management of the whole process, and all staff wear disposable face masks, masks and gloves throughout the process. After the first round of disinfection, the parcel was placed in a ventilated position by the window for 24 hours.
Zhao Jing, head of the Tianzhu Terminal of the Beijing Airmail Processing Center, told CCTV: “The mail will be dismantled for another 24 hours, and the total time should not be less than 48 hours. Ensure the cover of the mail. There will be no new coronavirus.”
In addition, all front-line operators who are in direct contact with international mail and express, and other high-risk positions are subject to filing management.
“All personnel on site are required to receive three injections of (new crown) vaccinations as required. Employees are provided with centralized accommodation, separate production and separate living areas, and nucleic acid testing is carried out every other day.” Zhao Jing said.
If Zhao Jing’s statement is true, the so-called problem package sent by Canada on the 7th arrived at the Beijing Air Mail Processing Center on the 10th, and after 24 hours of disinfection, “guarantee that the cover of the mail will not produce new coronavirus”, then how to carry the virus to the diagnosis patient.
Secondly, can the package be transported from the processing center to the terminal station in Zhongguancun, Haidian, Beijing, and then to the recipient, can it be ruled out that no virus is generated?
According to a previous report by the mainland media “Economic Daily”, Bian Zuodong, deputy director of the Market Supervision Department of the State Post Bureau of the Communist Party of China, has made in the past the import mail express processing process and statement consistent with Zhao Jing’s statement.
Bian Zuodong said that closed-loop management should be implemented for front-line operators who directly contact overseas personnel or international mail and express, so as to avoid cross-operation with personnel engaged in domestic mail and express operations. In addition, the equipment and equipment such as the vehicles transporting imported mail express and the cabinets carrying the imported mail express are also fully disinfected.
If this process is also disinfected, how does the virus appear on the package and test positive?
Foreign authorities say the virus is unlikely to survive on the surface of the package for several days
If the international package arrives in the hands of the recipient in Beijing after 5 days, is the virus likely to survive for 5 days. Several foreign authorities have publicly denied this possibility.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the official website, based on previous experience with coronaviruses that cause severe disease (such as SARS, MERS), coronaviruses have poor viability on surfaces and are unlikely to survive on the surface of packages for several days. The above will continue to spread, especially since there is currently no evidence of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus related to imported goods, so the risk of the recipient being infected with pneumonia is very low.
The CDC also said that touching your face after touching a surface that has been touched by the virus “is not considered to be the primary way the virus spreads.”
The European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) website says the virus can survive on cardboard surfaces for a maximum of a few hours.
On porous surfaces (textiles, cardboard, cash, etc.), studies have reported undetectable viable virus for minutes to hours, the ECDC said. On non-porous surfaces (plastic, stainless steel, glass, etc.), live virus can be detected for days to weeks.
“Nearly all infectious viruses disappear from surfaces within 72 hours (3 days). In most cases, cleaning surfaces with soap or detergent is sufficient to reduce risk,” the ECDC said.
It also said there was evidence that surface transmission was not the main route of transmission of the new coronavirus, and the risk was therefore considered low. The main way people become infected is through contact with respiratory droplets that carry the infectious virus.
WHO’s defense of China’s shipments at the peak of the epidemic also applies
The World Health Organization (WHO) made similar recommendations in 2021 when it defended Chinese packages. It made this statement early in the pandemic, when cases were concentrated in China: “People receiving packages from China are not at risk of contracting the novel coronavirus.”
“The likelihood of an infected person contaminating merchandise is low, as is the risk of contracting the virus that causes COVID-19 from packages that have moved, traveled, and been exposed to different conditions and temperatures,” the WHO said.
Elizabeth McGraw, director of Penn State’s Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, told Business Insider: “If we were spreading by package, we would immediately see global spread beyond China early in the outbreak… We don’t see that, so I think the risk is incredibly low.”
She advises that if people are really concerned about a package carrying the virus, the best thing to do is to open it as usual, then throw the outer package in the bin and wash your hands immediately. “The most important part of the whole process is the final hand washing,” McGraw said.
UPS: Cardboard boxes, etc. unlikely to be affected by virus
The website of the international express company UPS also answers this question. “Q: Are packages received in areas affected by the novel coronavirus safe? A: The World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have indicated that our cardboard boxes or other shipping containers may be affected by the virus Sex is small.”
NPR interviewed Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, about this issue. He said that although some viruses have strong survivability, the virus after leaving the host will disintegrate within a few hours in the natural environment, especially the shipping conditions and storage conditions of the package are not conducive to the survival of the virus, so transnational packages are not would be a real risk of contagion.
Chinese and foreign netizens questioned that when the virus arrives in China, it will be poisoned from good to foreign
Officials in Beijing and Shenzhen about the confirmed cause of the new crown caused an uproar among the public, and the level of distrust of the official epidemic reports on the Internet once again exploded.
Chinese netizen “Wuyan 2013” posted on Weibo, “How many international emails do you have every day? Canada is definitely not the most in terms of the current relationship. This question alone should be a bit of a joke. It’s really intriguing!”
The netizen added: “There are also cases in China, the express delivery industry is more developed, I believe the number is also higher than the international one, and the distance is shorter and the time is shorter. In theory, the probability is higher, such as Xi’an, but we have not heard a single case of mail transmission, so The virus is easy to be cured when it arrives in China, and it must be because of the increased awareness after listening to the news broadcast that it refuses to spread the virus through email, which is an unavoidable way?”
Chinese netizen “Nangong Ling” wrote: “Isn’t there anyone who throws the black gauze hat at the international express?”
Chinese netizens “floated by” and said, “Can you make up a more credible one next time?”
Another netizen “Feng Xi Shen Lei” questioned: “This is very strange in terms of transportation time. The documents are not fresh, and they will definitely not use cold chains. Where did it get infected?”
The netizen “Xingzhe” sarcastically said: “There is a lot of wind in winter, is there a risk of blowing in?”
Netizens are worried about whether the CCP is taking the opportunity to tighten international trade activities. He said: “The test is coming. If you are in retreat, then the economy will…”
Foreign netizens said that it is understandable for individuals to worry about the safety of packages as personal freedom, but it is doubtful that the package carries the virus only in one region of China.
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