Is the coronavirus transmitted through parcels from China

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-12 17:37

The spread of the new coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan shocked the whole world. Can the coronavirus be transmitted through a package from China, because Aliexpress, Jum and other Chinese sites are popular with Russians.

Expert opinions

The likelihood of contracting the new coronavirus through packages from Chinese sites is very low. Experts urge you not to worry and not refuse to receive the goods.

News from the Sverdlovsk region

In the Sverdlovsk region, they are concerned about the situation in China and fear that by ordering goods on Aliexpress, they risk getting infected. According to Anna Ozhiganova, press secretary of the Rospotrebnadzor department in the Sverdlovsk region, the new virus is not transmitted through things, but only from person to person.

She assured that the method of transmission in this case is exclusively airborne, and not contact-household, as many people think. Based on this, it is impossible to get infected through Chinese parcels.

The head of transport supervision and sanitary protection of the territory of the Sverdlovsk department of Rospotrebnadzor Svetlana Perminova also assured citizens that the risk of infection with the Chinese coronavirus through mail is minimal. According to her, no such cases have been recorded at present, and this virus is unstable in the external environment.

The opinion of the Chinese authorities

Hou Yanbo, deputy market control department of the State Postal Administration of China, also clarified whether the coronavirus can be transmitted through parcels from Aliexpress, Jum and other sites.

Hou Yanbo said, “The post office and express delivery companies decontaminate all envelopes, parcels and vehicles that deliver them. The transportation of wild animals is completely prohibited, so everyone can calm down, there is no need to refuse to accept ordinary parcels."

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He also recalled that the mutant virus can only be transmitted by airborne droplets, and it is almost impossible to become infected with it through Chinese parcels. The official advised to wash hands immediately after receiving the parcel.

According to a member of the Federation Council, pediatrician, pediatric surgeon and oncologist Vladimir Krugly, despite the fact that this type of coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is the first type that is transmitted from humans, it is practically unstable in the external environment.

When asked if it is possible to become infected after receiving Chinese postage, the doctor assures that this is unlikely. If you think logically, this can only happen if a person infected with the coronavirus was holding it a few hours before the delivery of the parcel.

Any virus in the process of moving from one country to another on airplanes, trains and cars cannot withstand that much time. Even one day is enough for him to be completely eliminated. You should not be afraid of Chinese parcels, they will not harm the population of Russia in any way.