Beijing will do everything in its power to stamp out the Covid-19 virus, which is why cities in China are now swabbing live fish for the disease.
The fish are being tested.
According to the South China Morning Post, fishers have been ordered to be tested for Covid-19 when they return from sea.
No Covid has been detected among marine life after some fishers imported the virus after making contact with other vessels at sea.
The wide net Beijing is willing to cast in pursuit of its zero- Covid policies has been seen in videos and pictures in local media and on social media.
According to local media, other cities have also mounted Covid fishing expeditions, with medical workers in Danzhou city reportedly swabbing fish on boats as the city entered lockdown in August.
Similar tactics were used by healthcare workers in hazmat suits during an outbreak in Shanghai in late March, but instead of boats they were looking for the virus.
Testing fish for Covid is useless, as fish live in water which will kill the virus, and red herrings have different body temperatures, which the virus is not adapted to.
China is an outlier in the effort to manage the coronaviruses. Beijing's constant adherence to the policy has led to extreme measures such as compulsory mass testing and isolating entire cities for weeks at a time. Experts believe that the virus that causes Covid-19 probably jumped into humans from animals sold at a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Beijing has impeded international efforts to investigate the origins of the virus and pushed alternative theories that have little scientific evidence behind them. The U.S. military is said to have introduced the virus to frozen food via overseas mail.
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