Is it contagious for imported cars to test positive for nucleic acid? CDC response

this time of year is the peak season for the sale of tropical fruits and imported fruits. On the 22nd, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of Liangxi District, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, issued a notice that on January 21st, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of Liangxi District, in the normal monitoring of imported food products, found that an imported car inside the surface nucleic acid test positive., the batch of food basically flowed to the city's Liangxi District, Huishan District and Binhu District. Local rapid implementation of epidemiological investigation, nucleic acid sampling, close contacts centralized isolation, surplus food storage, environmental killing and other measures. At present, Liangxi District, Huishan District and Binhu District collected a total of 199 specimens of environment, articles, personnel, the test results are negative.news, many consumers are also beginning to worry, imported cars can still eat with confidence? What does it mean to test positive for nucleic acid in imported cars? In response, Feng Zijian, deputy director of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that although many imported goods tested positive for nucleic acids, positive nucleic acids do not mean that they are necessarily contagious.nucleic acid, does not mean that it must be contagious, depending on the amount of pollution, in addition to the pollution of the virus is not active. From what we know, Wuxi this imported car tested positive for nucleic acid, the load of the virus is very low, will not cause too much risk of infection to consumers.
so far, although we have been finding all kinds of imported goods tested positive, but did not find ordinary consumers, contaminated by this imported goods virus infection.
Feng Zijian said that in the past, people engaged in food processing or handling work were infected because of the long and frequent exposure to the virus. For consumers, imported fruit generally does not cause infection, after cleaning can be safe to eat. Generally do not need special treatment, water flushing on the line. There is hand hygiene, contact with items after timely hand washing, do not use dirty hands to touch the eyes, nose, mouth.
say fruit is stored at a higher temperature than cold-chain foods, and the virus won't survive long on the fruit's surface. However, due to the low winter temperature, the virus will survive longer on the surface of containers and containers, so wash your hands more diligently to prevent the virus from spreading through contact with outer packaging.