Tianjin says two COVID-19 cases caught virus from pig heads


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SHANGHAI: An official from the city of Tianjin said on Tuesday (Nov 24) two confirmed COVID-19 cases this month caught the virus from pig heads from North America. Zhang Ying, an official at the Tianjin Center For Disease Control and Prevention, told a press conference that authorities had not tested the pig heads in question. However, samples taken from the spots where the heads fell when they were being moved out of storage tested positive for the same strain of the virus as the two confirmed cases, who had both been exposed to the pig heads, Zhang said. Tianjin authorities...