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The chinese postal service ordered its employees to systematically disinfect couriers from abroad, after authorities raised the hypothesis that a courier from Canada may have transported the Omicron variant to the country.
Less than three weeks before the start of the Winter Olympic Games In Beijing, authorities fear that their “zero covid” policy could be undermined by a series of limited outbreaks that have been detected in the country.
China, the first country where the new coronavirus was detected in late 2019, has infections under control, but has been facing some sporadic outbreaks for a few weeks, despite the fact that the number of new daily cases rarely rises above 200.
Last weekend, Beijing identified the first case of the contagious Omicron variant in a person who received a letter from Canada on which there were traces of the virus.
The postal service on Monday published a regulation directing employees to disinfect all packages arriving from abroad and requiring workers handling these shipments to receive a booster dose of the anticovid vaccine.
In addition, citizens were called upon to reduce their orders and purchases from “countries and regions with high risk of Covid-19“, announced the Chinese postal service.
Covid is spread through small particles exhaled by an infected person and the World Health Organization (WHO) maintains that the risk of becoming infected by touching contaminated surfaces is low and decreases as the virus is exposed.
