new crown pneumonia virus has been frequently detected in seafood and cold chain foods in many countries, causing people to stay away from aquatic and cold chain products, causing immeasurable economic losses to companies and countries that rely on such food exports. Recently, a politician from Sri Lanka, an island nation in South Asia, took out a whole raw fish at a press conference in order to prove that Haiwang aquatic products in the country will not spread the new crown virus. The reporters at the scene were shocked.
According to the British "Daily Mail" report on November 18, on the afternoon of November 18, local time, at a press conference held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, the country’s 63-year-old politician and former fisheries minister Dilip Dilip Wedaarachchi (Dilip Wedaarachchi) took a bite of raw fish in front of many media shots and chewed it with relish, encouraging people to buy and eat the country's seafood products in this bold way.
reported that after the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, the price of seafood in Sri Lanka fell sharply, and the largest fish market was forced to close because tens of thousands of tons of fish products had not been sold.
Mr. Vedalakić, who stepped down as Minister of Fisheries in 2019, said at the reception: "I brought this fish to you. I call on everyone in our country to eat this fish. Don’t worry, you will not be caught. It was infected with the new coronavirus. We all eat this fish raw. I will show it to you.” He said he took a bite of the fish, chewed it a few times, and swallowed it.
He went on to say: "Our fishery people cannot sell their fish. If the people of this country do not eat fish, those who go out fishing cannot afford to go out to sea. They are now in debt."
is understood. In October this year, a large-scale new crown epidemic broke out in the central fish market on the outskirts of Colombo, which caused thousands of infections and spread to all parts of the country. This directly caused the country’s fish sales to drop sharply and severely damaged the country’s fishing industry.
