China suspends poultry imports from a plant in Brazil following chickens’ wings test positive for Covid-19


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Shenzhen identified a Brazilian meat plant owned by Aurora, the country's third largest processor of chicken and pork, as the source of the chicken wings. A sample of frozen chicken wings imported into the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen from Brazil has tested positive for coronavirus, the city government said on Thursday, raising fears that contaminated food shipments could cause new outbreaks. Local disease control centers tested a surface sample taken from the chicken wings as part of routine screenings carried out on meat and seafood imports since June, when a new outbreak in Beijing was linked to the city's...