HARBIN — A total of 43 people have been placed under quarantine after a frozen-food sample in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang province tested positive for novel coronavirus, local authorities said Saturday.
Authorities in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang Province, have launched an emergency response after a third-party inspection agency found a frozen-food sample from a local trading company that tested positive for the coronavirus on Friday, according to the Harbin epidemic response headquarters.
As of 5 pm Saturday, 43 close contacts had been quarantined in designated places and 109 were under observation at home.
A total of 1,350 samples from these people, food prod…
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