PETALING JAYA: Malaysian companies exporting to China are disinfecting their products as per requirements.
Malaysia-China Chamber of Commerce trade fair and business development committee chairman Koh Keng Kok said China has been checking for the Covid-19 virus in all imported products.
“When we export anything to China – be it frozen or dry food – the authorities there will check every container for the virus.
“After you get the product certified as inspected, only then can you start selling it there, ” he said.
“If the virus is detected, those goods will be immediately disposed of, ” he added.
Koh said it will take about three weeks to a month before containers are dispatched to their intended destination.
The change comes years after the Beijing Tobacco Control Association initiated a campaign to remove images of smoking on social media. China has one of the world’s highest smoking rates, with about half of all men taking up the habit and about 20% of all minors having tried it. SCMP
WeChat, the ubiquitous super app known as Weixin in mainland China, has removed the image of a cigar in a popular emoji, years after an anti-smoking group warned that it complicated the fight against tobacco use among young people.
The emoji called “commando” – showing a man wearing a helmet and sunglasses, with a lit cigar between his lips – is widely used by Weixin users to describe someone at ease or chilling. Internet giant Tencent Holdings, operator of the multipurpose social media platform, said it has removed the image of the cigar from that emoji, according to its post on microblogging site Weibo on Sunday.
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George Gao Fu, director of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, shown at a news briefing in January, said on Monday that China and the US should work together to find the animal host of the coronavirus. Photo: AFP
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The sample had been collected from a pneumonia patient in Wuhan, Hubei province.
“It’s similar to when you cannot see the enemy during a war if you cannot get a clear picture of a virus when fighting an infectious disease, ” said Wu, chief biosafety expert at the China CDC.
In the initial days of the Covid-19 outbreak, when the disease was referred to as “pneumonia caused by unknown causes”, Wu and other virologists at the China CDC’s National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention had never been busier. The virologists worked around the clock to analyse the sample using the latest technology.
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