Health authorities in Beijing, China, said that a patient who was tested for the new coronavirus last Saturday (January 15, 2022) claimed to have been exposed to an international mail from Canada, after which quarantine officers detected the Omicron variant in the mail. Corona Virus.

 Beijing Says Mail From Canada May Enter New Corona Virus

Relevant officials said at a news conference on epidemic prevention and control in Beijing on Monday (January 17, 2022) that the possibility of foreign items bringing the virus into China cannot be ruled out.

Officials from the Beijing Postal Administration also announced a number of measures at the meeting, including sterilizing international mail, strengthening the testing of employees who come into contact with international mail, and urging the public to reduce mail ordering from abroad as much as possible.

Canadian health officials say the likelihood of the coronavirus spreading through international mail is low. Some Canadian scholars say that China's allegations that mail from Canada carried the new coronavirus and urged Chinese people to reduce international mail order activities may be related to the ongoing tension between China and Canada.

Canada's Conservative Party leader O'Toole called China's remarks ridiculous. "The reports remind us that we cannot believe some of China's claims since the beginning of the pandemic," he told a news conference on Monday.

At a news conference on Monday, Xu Hejian, deputy head of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee's Publicity Department and director of the city government's information office, said that from Sunday to Monday morning, Beijing had not found any new local confirmed cases. The city's health commission said Tuesday that throughout the day on Monday, the city had one new local confirmed case and three imported confirmed cases.

Beijing is about to host the Winter Olympics. Authorities continue to clear the new crown pneumonia model, and are stepping up the control, traceability and isolation measures of cases.