Can I still eat imported cherries?

On January 21, the Liangxi District Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, carried out normalized monitoring of imported food and found a positive nucleic acid test on the inner surface of imported cherries with a production date of December 18, 2020

So, can imported cherries still be eaten? In this regard, the reporter interviewed Luan Rongsheng, chairman of the Epidemiology Branch of the Sichuan Preventive Medicine Association and professor of epidemiology at the West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, and he answered this series of questions

Luan Rongsheng said that whether it is cherries or other fruits, they will be washed or peeled before eating

So will eating contaminated cherries infect the new crown? Luan Rongsheng said that the new coronavirus does not have a digestive tract transmission route, so even if a small amount of the virus enters the human body through the digestive tract, it will not be infected

How to clean cherries correctly? Luan Rongsheng said that running water is enough