Chinese coronavirus and parcels with AliExpress: what is the risk?

Due to the outbreak of coronavirus in China, the Rosselkhoznadzor conducts a continuous check of the luggage of passengers arriving in Russia from China and Southeast Asia.

Specialists are confiscating meat products without factory packaging and have not undergone heat treatment.

Russian scientists do not exclude the risk of transmission of coronavirus through Chinese parcels. Head of the Laboratory of Virology of the FEB RAS Mikhail Shchelkanov believes that the drops formed as a result of coughing or sneezing settle on the objects surrounding the infected person - touching them can lead to illness.

At the same time, Galina Kozhevnikova, Head
The Department of Infectious Diseases of RUDN said that the risk of transmitting the virus in this way is negligible, since the pathogen is sensitive to the environment.

AliExpress reports that it is actively cooperating with Rospotrebnadzor.

Source: tonkosti