China's National Health Commission (NHC) has paid close attention to the relationship between food and COVID-19, and the possibility of a spread of the new coronavirus via food products.
As such, the NHC carried out monitoring all over the country after new cases emerged at Beijing's Xinfadi market in early June, focusing on both fresh meat and foreign imports of cold chain transported products.
As of Thursday, more than 50,000 food samples from Zhejiang, Yunnan and Henan provinces had been tested negative for the virus.
