Residents queue for nucleic acid testing in Henantun Village of Xingfu Town in Heihe, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, November 7, 2021.Photo:Xinhua

Four batches of food imported from Russia were detected with coronavirus on their outer packaging, said China's border city Heihe in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on Sunday.

Heihe, a coronavirus-hit city in China's latest round of COVID-19 resurgence, had taken multiple samples of the four types of food in circulation after the discovery of coronavirus-positive packaging, and all tested negative of coronavirus, the city's health authority said Sunday morning.

Heihe conducted nucleic acid tests on the city's stock food imported from Russia on Saturday. Four types of the food tested positive, namely a KONTI-brand chocolate-flavor wafer candy (production date: August 4), KONTI-brand chocolate-flavor wafer biscuit (production date: August 4), KONTI-brand muskmelon-flavor soft sweet (production date: August 17) and a milk powder (production date: October 8).

Heihe government has reminded citizens who have these products at home to disinfect and seal them, and contact local center for disease prevention and control (CDC) in time.

Heihe health authority reported two new local confirmed cases in its Aihui district on Saturday. Including the two, Heilongjiang Province has found 275 local COVID-19 patients (273 confirmed cases and two silent carriers) in the latest round of virus outbreak since October 27.

Global Times