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In mid-November 2019, a batch of seafood from Maine, USA was shipped to

Wuhan South China Seafood Market through the cold chain. In just a few weeks

, employees of many merchants in the South China Seafood Market experienced

symptoms of pneumonia of unknown origin one after another, and they were

infected with the new coronary pneumonia.

Entry

At 4:4 am on November 11, 2019, China Eastern Airlines Flight MU298 landed

at Shanghai Pudong International Airport.

A batch of American cold-chain cargo carried on board the aircraft was

unloaded from the cabin of the North Airport Cargo Terminal and transported

to the international cargo arrival area to wait for entry. Among them are 55

boxes of 823.4 kilograms of chilled American Boston lobsters.

The goods arrived quickly because of air freight. Only 3 days have passed

since the time when Wang, an employee of company X, placed an order on the

fresh food cross-border trading platform. But they have to act quickly and

send the goods to Shanghai, Hubei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Henan and other places

as soon as possible. 26 customers have ordered this batch of lobsters with

a total value of 1,6483.5 US dollars.

Before shipment, they will open the box and inspect the goods as usual, and

then package them with the original packaging, ice packs and water and

temperature control sponges, and send them to subscribers everywhere.

Zheng is also one of the subscribers of this batch of lobsters. He is the

owner of merchant A of Wuhan South China Seafood Market. On November 11 and

12, 2019, he placed an order for a total of 140.08 kilograms of lobster on

the X company network platform. In recent years, Zheng has a group of

regular hotel customers, and he also provides aquatic products to other

merchants in the South China Seafood Market.

I am afraid it was this batch of American lobsters that opened the Pandora’s

box of the epidemic in the South China Seafood Market.

Spread

Everything looks normal.

At 10 am on November 11, 2019, at Shanghai Pudong International Airport, the

driver Yan loaded 55 boxes of American lobsters on the truck and

transported them to the Shanghai branch of Company X; at 17:00 on the 11th

and 12th, the Shanghai branch of Company X had two branches Secondly, 35.39

kg and 104.69 kg of lobster were sent to Wuhan South China Seafood Market;

at 4:40 am on the 12th and 7 am on the 13th, Zheng waited for his goods by

the northwest road of the market.

According to the sales records of merchant A, more than 80 kg of the 140.08

kg of American lobster were sold to 3 fixed hotel merchants, and 36 kg were

resold to other merchants in the South China Seafood Market, of which 0.85

kg was sold to merchant B’s owner Wen Mou, and the rest retail.

Among the first batch of people infected with new coronary pneumonia in

Wuhan, 3 were employees of merchant B. They all became ill in December. An

environmental positive sample was also collected on the ground of the

merchant.

Not only that, the employees of merchants C and D of the South China Seafood

Market, Ming, Cai, Xu, Hu, etc., after borrowing the packaging materials of

American cold chain products purchased by merchant A, also appeared in the

earliest infected persons in Wuhan. List.

can be seen more clearly from the booth map around the A store. There are

many infected persons and positive environmental samples in nearby

businesses. Among the 13 merchants and employees in the surrounding area, 7

merchants were found to have positive seroantibodies, and one of the

merchants also detected positive environmental samples.

There are more infected persons in the surrounding businesses of merchant A

Further investigation found that Zheng also had 41 trading partners and 39

WeChat friends in the seafood market. He has cross-linking transactions with

merchants E and F. These two merchants are located in the earliest

concentrated outbreak area, and many people have positive seroantibodies.

The six merchants H, J, and K who communicate with each other daily have all

found more A positive environmental point and a sero-positive person.

A merchant store owner Zheng’s multiple trading partners and WeChat friends

have been infected

Whether the early outbreak of the South China seafood market was imported

through the cold chain of this batch of American seafood has become the

biggest doubt. The traceability results of the epidemic in Xinfadi in

Beijing in June 2020, Dalian in Liaoning in July, and Qingdao in Shandong in

October all point to imported cold chain products. Therefore, it is

entirely possible for the virus to attach to the cold chain packaging of

this batch of seafood products in the United States and enter the South

China seafood market.

This possibility is also supported by the “China-WHO Joint Research Report

on the Traceability of New Coronavirus” released by the WHO in March this

year. The report states: “Research shows that the new coronavirus can

survive for a long time under the conditions of frozen food, packaging and

cold chain products. The index cases in the recent epidemic in China are

related to the cold chain; in some other cold chain products provided to

China The virus was found on the country’s packaging and products,

indicating that it can be spread over long distances through cold chain

products.”

Disease source

According to sales, logistics and customs declaration records, from October

to November 2019 before the outbreak of the South China Seafood Market,

Merchant A was the only merchant operating American cold chain products in

the entire market. And it was in mid-November that Merchant A purchased this

batch of American lobsters, and has not purchased American cold chain

products since then.

After December 2019, some hospitals in Wuhan have successively discovered

multiple confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia with a history of

exposure to the South China Seafood Market. At this time, it was about a

month after this batch of American seafood entered the South China Seafood

Market. Latent to a cycle of onset.

The batch of American lobsters ordered by Company X’s network platform was

packaged by the American Seashell Company. Founded in 2011, the company is a

wholesaler specializing in sourcing fresh North Atlantic lobster from the

United States and Canada. The lobsters that entered China were caught by the

company from October 20 to November 5, 2019 from the Atlantic Ocean’s FAO21

waters, and then transported to the Haibei company’s factory for temporary

storage. After a Chinese customer places an order, it will be shipped to

China through the cold chain.

In York County, where Hiby’s factory is located, cases of “e-cigarette

pneumonia” have already been detected. According to information released by

the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as early as July 2019

, York County Hospital received a lot of “e-cigarette pneumonia”. “Case.

The map shows that the hospital is less than 2.6 kilometers away from Haibei

Company by car.

Someone might ask that these 55 boxes of lobster were delivered to 26

customers in 5 provinces in batches. Except for the South China Seafood

Market, the personnel and purchasers of cold chain products in the process

of loading and unloading, transportation, processing, etc. during the

circulation of cold chain products in China No cases of infection were found

. Why did the infection occur only in the South China Seafood Market?