BEIJING : China's health authority has confirmed the detection and isolation of living novel coronavirus on the outer packaging of imported frozen marine fish in the port city of Qingdao, in what it described as the first detection of its kind on the cold food chain in the world.The authorities in Qingdao, where a new cluster of COVID-19 cases were reported recently, conducted tests on all of its about 11 million population.
No new clusters of cases were found after the tests, the local authorities said.In July, China suspended imports of frozen shrimp after the deadly virus was found on packages and the inner wall of a container.