(Yicai Global) Aug. 26 -- Alibaba Group Holding's Hema Fresh supermarket chain will resume business at 10 stores in Shenzhen tomorrow since the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak is now well under control there.

The remaining 11 stores in Shenzhen will also gradually resume operations after satisfying the government's pandemic prevention requirements, Sina Technology reported today.

A woman who previously worked at a Hema store in the southern economic powerhouse near Hong Kong was diagnosed with Covid-19 on Aug. 14. Two other employees in the same store and three family members of the confirmed case also tested positive and were identified as being asymptomatic.

Hema has suspended business at all of its 21 Shenzhen stores for general disinfection and provided nucleic acid tests for all its staff and fresh products in Shenzhen since Aug. 15, the firm said on its Weibo account that day.

Except for the first confirmed case and the two asymptomatic infections, the nucleic acid test results of other employees, goods, the ambient environment and warehouse samples of Shenzhen Hema stores have all come back normal, the city’s health commission announced on Aug. 20.

Many Chinese cities conducted random inspections of imported seafood and frozen products in local Hema stores after Shenzhen Hema’s cases, and the results were all negative.

Hema has promised to release the nucleic acid test report for each batch of its over 1,300 imported seafood and frozen meat and poultry products sold across China in its app and stores.

The cold chain section still confronts a certain risk of virus contamination with reports from all parts of China that the outer packaging of some imported frozen fresh products has tested positive for the coronavirus.

Editor: Ben Armour