The report’s distinctive additional pathway. Its stated basis: SARS-CoV-2 persists on frozen food/packaging; later index cases in Chinese outbreaks were linked to cold chain; the virus has been found on imported cold-chain packaging, showing it can be carried long distances; and cold-chain products in the market were never tested in early 2020. The report ranks this pathway “possible”. Widely regarded outside China as low-probability; extracted here as the report advances it substantively.