Coronavirus found in auto parts in C …

The health authorities of China they reported that they found a coronavirus in various batches of car parts manufactured by a local subsidiary of the German company Daimler which had been distributed in different parts of the country. So far they have reported 11 contagions of covid-19 among company workers.

According to the local public television channel CGTN, a first case of a worker with coronavirus on December 26 at the factory, So the Beijing authorities has decided to suspend production and isolate the industrial zone where it is located, in a district in the northeast of the Chinese capital.

Health officials say Daimler subsidiary, which quarantined the workers, did not strictly adhere to anti-covid regulations and allowed its employees to meet without properly wearing masks.

An expert from the China Center for Disease Control (CDC) assured that employees are the ones who contaminated auto parts with the virus and ruled out parties being the ones transmitting SARS-CoV-2 to workers.

Due to the cold, the infectious agent survived in these objects during their transfer to other parts of China., where several batches from the Daimler plant have tested positive in recent days in regions such as Inner Mongolia and Shanxi (north) or Shandong (east).

However, the CDC noted that the amount of virus found in auto parts is “relatively low” for what is considered contagion unlikely people who came into contact with them.

In recent months, China has investigated not only human-to-human transmission of SARS-CoV-2, but also its survival in inert objects, with particular emphasis on foods imported into cold chains from other countries. where the pandemic is still raging.