Coronavirus: bizarre clip of medical workers testing live seafood widely ridiculed for insane extent of China’s dynamic zero-Covid rule
- A Chinese port city has ordered PCR tests on live seafood including fish, crabs and shrimp amid fears they are the source of a new Covid outbreak
- PCR tests have been conducted on a variety of animals including chickens and cats across China over the past couple of years
Xiamen, the famous tourist city located in China’s southeastern coastal province of Fujian, has ordered PCR tests for both fishermen and their harvests after they return from the sea, according to the city’s fishery supervisor.
“We test humans as well as what they caught at the same time – sample tests for the same batch of seafood,” a staff member of the Xiamen Municipal Oceanic Development Bureau told the South China Morning Post on Thursday.
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Live seafood ‘tested’ for Covid-19 in China
“We’re not the only place doing this. We took the lesson from Hainan, which is witnessing a serious outbreak. It’s said that it may be triggered by marine product transactions between local fishermen and their overseas counterparts,” he said.
Over the weekend, the Hainan Daily, the official newspaper of the southern island province of Hainan, reported that medical workers in its Danzhou city swabbed fish on fishing boats as the city went into an entire lockdown after new infections were detected in Sanya at the beginning of August and have since spread to the whole island.
