Sunday, March 29, 2020

NBC praised China for its medical supplies. Turns out, Chinese COVID-19 tests don't work, masks are defective.

NBC News showered praise on China last week for shipping medical supplies and coronavirus test kits to countries now grappling with the coronavirus pandemic.

As it turns out, the majority of COVID-19 test kits and N95-like masks manufactured in China and shipped to countries in dire need are defective.

Both Spain and the Czech Republic, which purchased rapid COVID-19 test kits from a Chinese bio company, found that few of the tests actually detected the virus.

In Spain, which currently has the fourth-highest number of coronavirus cases in the world, the government purchased 640,000 rapid test kits from China and South Korea as it fights the pandemic.

Experts soon discovered that the tests it purchased from Chinese company Bioeasy were only correctly identifying coronavirus cases 30 percent of the time, according to Spain's El Pais.

One doctor using the tests found that 80 percent of the kits were faulty and has reverted back to the conventional lab tests, which are significantly slower to process.

Turkey and the country of Georgia also had similar issues with the Chinese test kits, according to the Daily Beast.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/nbc-praised-china-for-its-medical-supplies-turns-out-chinese-tests-dont-work-masks-are-defective

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