China blames BRITISH food for coronavirus as shrimp products test positive


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The Chinese city of Wuhan first reported cases of COVID-19 last year and Beijing has continued to deny it originated in the country despite reports it passed from animal to humans in an exotic meat market. But now Beijing have now hit out as international food imports for coronavirus. According to the Times, around 23 companies have been barred from the Communist nation after a packet of frozen shrimp from Ecuador was carrying the virus. Last week, Bi Kevin, director of food safety at China’s General Administration of Customs, said they tested more than 200,000 samples of imported food. Of...