Merchants at the Xinfadi market queue for facial recognition and body temperature checks on the morning of August 15, following an outbreak of infections. Covering a total area of 112 hectares, the Xinfadi market provides 80 percent of Beijing's vegetables and fruits. Previous NextBeijing's Xinfadi market, which was linked to a coronavirus outbreak in June, has suspended sales and storage of cold-chain and aquatic products, state-backed Beijing News reported. Several infections in recent months in Qingdao and Tianjin cities involved handlers of imported frozen food, Reuters said. However, officials cautioned that the risk to consumers of catching the virus from cold chain food products was "very low".

Source: The Standard November 26, 2020 01:30 UTC