Chinese officials found COVID-19 in the refrigerator of a family in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, after an elderly couple was diagnosed with the infection. The Daily Mail reports.
On Monday afternoon, December 7, Chengdu experienced the first case of coronavirus infection since March. On Sunday, December 6, a 69-year-old woman named Lu went to see a doctor complaining of a cough. The pensioner was diagnosed with a new coronavirus infection.
Her husband, rickshaw driver Zhao, tested positive as well.
A couple with a child rented an apartment from the Chinese. The tenants were involved in the sale of fruit and regularly visited the local wholesale market where they purchased products. It was not reported whether the tenants were infected with COVID-19.
Since 14:00 on Monday, the market has been closed due to the threat of the spread of a new coronavirus infection, and eight temporary testing points have been installed at four of its entrances. All buyers and sellers have been banned from leaving the shopping arcade until they pass the COVID-19 test and officially register information about it.
Local authorities said they found the source of the infection in the couple’s refrigerator when they took samples from their apartment. “Patients ‘refrigerator, doorknobs, light switches, some food in the refrigerator and cutting boards have tested positive for COVID-19. This means that the virus has seriously affected the patients’ home,” said Zhu Xiaoping, a Sichuan provincial government spokesman.
In recent months, China has tightly controlled the spread of infection, most of the cases of infection occurred from outsiders. But since November, there has been an outbreak of cases in the cities of Tianjin, Shanghai and Manchuria, after which the authorities have tested millions of people, imposed strict restrictions and closed schools.
Earlier it was reported that in Scotland a 94-year-old woman did not leave at home for five days for fear of contracting coronavirus. After she was found by employees of the housing complex, it turned out that the pensioner was starving and there was no food in her house.