GUWAHATI: The World Health Organization said, on August 13, that it saw no evidence of coronavirus being spread by food or packaging and urged people not to be afraid of the virus entering the food chain.
Two cities in China had earlier claimed to have found traces of the coronavirus in imported frozen chicken wings from Brazil and on outer packaging of frozen Ecuadorian shrimp, raising fears that contaminated food shipments might cause a new outbreak.
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“People should not fear food, or food packaging or processing or delivery of food,” WHO head of emergencies programme Mike Ryan told a briefing in Geneva.
“There is no evidence that food or the food chain is participating in transmission of this virus. And people should feel comfortable and safe,” he added.
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More than 20 million people have so far been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and the death toll has crossed 750,000.
