>> New Zealand investigating if the latest outbreak came from freight.
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www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/new-zealand-considers-freight-as-possible-source-of-new-covid-19-cluster-1.4328227
Investigations were zeroing in on the potential the virus was imported by freight. Dr Bloomfield said surface testing was underway at an Auckland cool store where a man from the infected family worked.
“We know the virus can survive within refrigerated environments for quite some time,” he said during a televised media conference.
The NZ business of Atlanta, US-based, Americold, a refrigerated storage specialist with operations in the United States, Australia and New Zealand, identified itself as the owner of the cool store.
Americold NZ managing director Richard Winnall told the NZ Herald the infected man had been on sick leave for several days and all employees had been sent home for tests.
China has reported instances of the coronavirus being detected on the packaging of imported frozen seafood.
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