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Are cookies, pastries, candies, and dried fruit from china free of coronavirus? i haven't heard of any problems with foods, but just wanted to check.
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Goods and services: While people are currently restricted from movements in and around China because of the current coronavirus, shipments of goods are not restricted. People are not likely to become infected with coronavirus on contact with objects from China. The coronavirus is a respiratory virus.
Answered 2/6/2020
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