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China finds traces of COVID-19 in Uruguayan beef shipment

Fresh Whole Beef

China

Uruguay

Innovation & Technology

Dan Kleiner

Published Dec 9, 2020

The Wuhan Epidemiological Control Center claims to have found traces of Covid-19 in the packaging of a batch of frozen beef from Uruguay. However, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries of Uruguay, after evaluating the case, was able to trace this a consignment produced in Uruguay in the month of December 2019 that has been stored since March 2020 in a warehouse of the Wuhan city, and, which would have reached first to South Africa, then to Malaysia and then to the city of Tianjin. The ministry also claims that Uruguay´s first official COVID-19 case was reported on March 13th 2020 thus making it impossible for those traces to have been originally shipped from Uruguay. So far no sanction has been applied.

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