Storage of the ice cream, produced by\u00a0Tianjin Daqiaodao Food Co., was sealed after samples sent by the firm to a local disease control center last week tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n Officials said that the company\u2019s more than 1,662 workers were placed under quarantine due to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus\u2014also known as the novel coronavirus that causes\u00a0COVID-19<\/a>.<\/p>\n Authorities in Tianjin said the company produced more than 4,836 boxes of COVID-contaminated ice cream, according to state media. Hundreds of boxes of ice cream entered the market.<\/p>\n The Tianjin Municipality is located in northeastern\u00a0China<\/a>\u00a0and borders Hebei Province and Beijing.<\/p>\n According to\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0in October 2020, CCP authorities had\u00a0detected and isolated the virus on the outer packaging of frozen cod during efforts to trace the virus in an outbreak in Qingdao.<\/p>\n Officials\u2019\u00a0claims<\/a>\u00a0about the virus being found in frozen food could be a tactic to blame other countries for COVID-19 cases in the country. In November, regime authorities said that allegedly COVID-contaminated food was imported from other countries in what some experts said was an attempt to blame those countries for the outbreak.<\/p>\n State media reports over the weekend said the raw material used to produce the ice cream came from Ukraine and New Zealand.<\/strong><\/p>\n The ice cream development comes as CCP authorities relocated about 20,000 people in\u00a0Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province, to other areas for quarantine several days ago. The outbreak, according to officials, also spread to Qiqihar\u2014one of the largest cities in northern China in\u00a0Heilongjiang Province.<\/p>\n The new wave of the COVID-19 outbreak\u00a0in Shijiazhuang was concentrated in Zengcun township of Gaocheng district, and has spread to other parts of China.<\/p>\n The Epoch Times learned on Jan. 11 that after many residents in Zengcun were sent to quarantine sites, nearly 20,000 people who had remained were urgently notified by local authorities to be transferred to quarantine centers in remote areas.<\/p>\n And leaked government documents\u00a0obtained<\/a>\u00a0by The Epoch Times showed that officials in Hebei are anticipating a surge in\u00a0CCP virus<\/a>\u00a0cases and are making preparations to curb its spread.<\/p>\n Chinese officials in Heilongjiang Province on Jan. 14\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0all 38 million residents to self-quarantine at home, although they didn\u2019t say for how long.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/sugarcube2-700x420.jpg?itok=gSgkIegm\")
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