Coronavirus: Thread

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Sun Aug 21 20:52:30 PDT 2022


Chinese City Testing Fish For COVID

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxnj3m/chinese-city-tests-fish-for-covid
https://twitter.com/backtolife_2023/status/1560259358545498113
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3144930/coronavirus-hong-kong-medical-expert-says-people
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8583529/

Authorities in the coastal city of Xiamen, province have made a public
spectacle out of testing fish for coronavirus, after blaming fisherman
in Fujian province for 'importing' the virus in June while reportedly
conducting "illegal trade" with foreign boats, Vice reports.
Photo: Taihainet

"During operations, fishermen must undergo one test every day. When
fishermen and their catch reach the shore, both ‘humans and goods’
have to be tested," read an official notice issued late last month,
which applies to fishermen, the fish, crabs, and any prawns caught.

    Live seafood ‘tested’ for Covid-19 in China
    Source: South China Morning Post (Youtube) pic.twitter.com/QGdwGHaSD1
    — Wittgenstein (@backtolife_2023) August 18, 2022

"Do they isolate the fish if it tests positive?" one user on Weibo commented.

    Adrian Esterman, an epidemiologist from the University of South
Australia, described the measure as “unnecessary.”

    “Fish basically cannot carry coronavirus. Firstly, they don’t have
the receptors that coronaviruses latch on to. Secondly, the body
temperature of fish is not suitable for the viruses to survive,”
Esterman told VICE World News. “The chance of a fish being infected
with coronavirus is pretty much zero.”

    While the virus could potentially survive on the surfaces of
frozen fish, as a previous case in Hong Kong showed last year, the
risk of getting infected from contaminated surfaces is very low.
Studies have found that less than 5 in 10,000 are infected through
fomites—objects and surfaces that may carry the virus. -Vice

The official notice also offered up to half a a million yuan ($73,630)
for ratting out violators.


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