#Newspaper
China raises export requirements for medical supplies. Over 1 million RMB worth of PPE delayed at customs.
Ministry of Commerce researcher states, "This is in answer foreign intentions. We will see the consequences in the EU and US in a week"
(1 Apr) China's medical supplies exports received international criticism for its low quality. The Ministry of Commerce reacted by increasing the requirements for export. Starting from 1 April, all businesses must obtain registration certificates for exporting medical supplies. This includes testing kits and face masks.
Compared to previous requirements of only obtaining FDA certification from the US or CE certification from the EU, the new conditions for export are more stringent.
A businessman who manufactures PPE in Shandong said that he has over 1 mil RMB worth of PPE currently held in customs. He expects the inspection report to take 10 to 15 days, after which he can ship the goods. However, it will have already violated some terms in the contracts between him and his foreign buyers.
He believes that due to the previous lack of monitoring and quality control, the government is now responding to international criticism with the new rules, "We (China) used to export to America and Europe with FDA and CE (certifications). But after obtaining these certifications, some manufacturers went on to create products below certification standards."
Mei Xinyu, a Ministry of Commerce researcher, stressed that raising export requirements was in answer to international intentions and a self-defence mechanism. "You [US and EU] did not use our products according to instructions. Without even checking them yourselves, you blame Chinese products for everything. We want to use China’s production capability to save lives and do good. We have no interest in being smeared for helping others. Per your request, we are tightening our controls (to export requirements)."
He added, "In a week, let's see what consequences you people in the EU and US will face for airing your troublesome opinions. The Chinese government puts the lives of Chinese people first. Yet, in the EU and US, politicians, media and public opinion simply disregard the lives of their people. Then, you want to talk about human rights issues in China. Just shut your mouths!"
#MedicalSuppliesExport
#IcabelChinaGroup
Source: Icable News
https://bit.ly/2RcfGSk
#China #MedicalSupplies #Quality #Masks #TestKits
China raises export requirements for medical supplies. Over 1 million RMB worth of PPE delayed at customs.
Ministry of Commerce researcher states, "This is in answer foreign intentions. We will see the consequences in the EU and US in a week"
(1 Apr) China's medical supplies exports received international criticism for its low quality. The Ministry of Commerce reacted by increasing the requirements for export. Starting from 1 April, all businesses must obtain registration certificates for exporting medical supplies. This includes testing kits and face masks.
Compared to previous requirements of only obtaining FDA certification from the US or CE certification from the EU, the new conditions for export are more stringent.
A businessman who manufactures PPE in Shandong said that he has over 1 mil RMB worth of PPE currently held in customs. He expects the inspection report to take 10 to 15 days, after which he can ship the goods. However, it will have already violated some terms in the contracts between him and his foreign buyers.
He believes that due to the previous lack of monitoring and quality control, the government is now responding to international criticism with the new rules, "We (China) used to export to America and Europe with FDA and CE (certifications). But after obtaining these certifications, some manufacturers went on to create products below certification standards."
Mei Xinyu, a Ministry of Commerce researcher, stressed that raising export requirements was in answer to international intentions and a self-defence mechanism. "You [US and EU] did not use our products according to instructions. Without even checking them yourselves, you blame Chinese products for everything. We want to use China’s production capability to save lives and do good. We have no interest in being smeared for helping others. Per your request, we are tightening our controls (to export requirements)."
He added, "In a week, let's see what consequences you people in the EU and US will face for airing your troublesome opinions. The Chinese government puts the lives of Chinese people first. Yet, in the EU and US, politicians, media and public opinion simply disregard the lives of their people. Then, you want to talk about human rights issues in China. Just shut your mouths!"
#MedicalSuppliesExport
#IcabelChinaGroup
Source: Icable News
https://bit.ly/2RcfGSk
#China #MedicalSupplies #Quality #Masks #TestKits
#Newspaper
Spain seeks refund for defective coronavirus tests, after replacement kits also prove faulty
//The Spanish government is trying to get back the money it paid for 640,000 antigen coronavirus tests that it purchased via a Spanish distributor from a Chinese company called Bioeasy.
// As happened the first time around, these tests do not have the sensitivity required to detect the virus, meaning that there is a high chance that they won’t detect the coronavirus in a person who has been infected.
//On seeing that they weren’t sufficiently sensitive, the government decided to cancel the entire order.
//The company suggested replacing the order with antigen kits, which were also rapid but that required a machine to read the result. The Chinese company was going to include these machines free of charge to compensate for the problems.
//The Spanish government has now rejected the use of antigen tests, in which great hopes had been placed just a few weeks ago. This kind of test is now not even being used in the latest diagnostic protocols for the Covid-19 disease.
//The latter kits detect antibodies, and as such do not detect the disease in the early stages of infection. These are the ones that are being used in order to increase the number of diagnostic tests being carried out, as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Full Article: El Pais, (21-Apr)
Further reading:
Spanish official cries reading names of health workers killed by coronavirus
https://youtu.be/lMu-jCazJzE
#Spain #China #Coronavirus #TestKits #AntigenTest #WHO #Defective #MadeInChina
Spain seeks refund for defective coronavirus tests, after replacement kits also prove faulty
//The Spanish government is trying to get back the money it paid for 640,000 antigen coronavirus tests that it purchased via a Spanish distributor from a Chinese company called Bioeasy.
// As happened the first time around, these tests do not have the sensitivity required to detect the virus, meaning that there is a high chance that they won’t detect the coronavirus in a person who has been infected.
//On seeing that they weren’t sufficiently sensitive, the government decided to cancel the entire order.
//The company suggested replacing the order with antigen kits, which were also rapid but that required a machine to read the result. The Chinese company was going to include these machines free of charge to compensate for the problems.
//The Spanish government has now rejected the use of antigen tests, in which great hopes had been placed just a few weeks ago. This kind of test is now not even being used in the latest diagnostic protocols for the Covid-19 disease.
//The latter kits detect antibodies, and as such do not detect the disease in the early stages of infection. These are the ones that are being used in order to increase the number of diagnostic tests being carried out, as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Full Article: El Pais, (21-Apr)
Further reading:
Spanish official cries reading names of health workers killed by coronavirus
https://youtu.be/lMu-jCazJzE
#Spain #China #Coronavirus #TestKits #AntigenTest #WHO #Defective #MadeInChina
EL PAĂŤS
Spain seeks refund for defective coronavirus tests, after replacement kits also prove faulty
The Health Ministry has canceled an entire order of antigen kits from Chinese company Bioeasy, after already sending back a first batch
#Newspaper
U.K. Paid $20 Million for New Coronavirus Tests. They Didn’t Work
//The two Chinese companies were offering a risky proposition: two million home test kits said to detect antibodies for the Coronavirus for at least $20 million, take it or leave it.
//The tests did not work.
//Found to be insufficiently accurate by a laboratory at Oxford University, half a million of the tests are now gathering dust in storage. Another 1.5 million bought at a similar price from other sources have also gone unused. The fiasco has left embarrassed British officials scrambling to get back at least some of the money.
//The ill-starred purchases are in some ways a parable of the risks in the escalating scrum among competing governments racing for an edge in the fight against the pandemic.
//“You can’t lift the lockdown as long as you are not testing massively,”... “As long as the government is not testing in the community, we are going to be on lockdown.”
//Rapid antibody tests “have limited utility” for patients, the World Health Organization warned in an April 8 statement, telling doctors that such tests remained unfit for clinical purposes until they were proved to be accurate and effective.
//British officials, though, were eager for a breakthrough.
Full article: The New York Times, (16-Apr)
Further reading:
University of Washington is forced to halt use of coronavirus testing kits it bought from China for $125,000 after it's revealed some are contaminated with bacteria
http://dailym.ai/3bYmfQN
Spain seeks refund for defective coronavirus tests, after replacement kits also prove faulty
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19954
#UK #Coronavirus #Pandemic #TestKits #MadeInChina
U.K. Paid $20 Million for New Coronavirus Tests. They Didn’t Work
//The two Chinese companies were offering a risky proposition: two million home test kits said to detect antibodies for the Coronavirus for at least $20 million, take it or leave it.
//The tests did not work.
//Found to be insufficiently accurate by a laboratory at Oxford University, half a million of the tests are now gathering dust in storage. Another 1.5 million bought at a similar price from other sources have also gone unused. The fiasco has left embarrassed British officials scrambling to get back at least some of the money.
//The ill-starred purchases are in some ways a parable of the risks in the escalating scrum among competing governments racing for an edge in the fight against the pandemic.
//“You can’t lift the lockdown as long as you are not testing massively,”... “As long as the government is not testing in the community, we are going to be on lockdown.”
//Rapid antibody tests “have limited utility” for patients, the World Health Organization warned in an April 8 statement, telling doctors that such tests remained unfit for clinical purposes until they were proved to be accurate and effective.
//British officials, though, were eager for a breakthrough.
Full article: The New York Times, (16-Apr)
Further reading:
University of Washington is forced to halt use of coronavirus testing kits it bought from China for $125,000 after it's revealed some are contaminated with bacteria
http://dailym.ai/3bYmfQN
Spain seeks refund for defective coronavirus tests, after replacement kits also prove faulty
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19954
#UK #Coronavirus #Pandemic #TestKits #MadeInChina
NY Times
U.K. Paid $20 Million for New Coronavirus Tests. They Didn’t Work. (Published 2020)
Facing a global scramble for materials, British officials bought millions of unproven kits from China in a gamble that became an embarrassment.
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#OpinionArticle #FungChiChing
Pro-Beijing camp’s Pro-Beijing suggestion on virus tests and Kits for Hong Kong
(10 Jul) Pro-Beijing camp suggests to introduce China Wuhan virus tests and Clinical Diagnostic Kits in Hong Kong. Did they think about the accuracy of the China tests and kits? If any Hong Kong laboratories find the testing kits not accurate, it will create a doubt on the infected numbers in China, violating the National Security Law in Hong Kong. This risk for any Hong Kong testing laboratories is serious and they have no ground to take the job (accepting the China testing kits), especially those testing kits have already been challenged by overseas countries which they returned the purchase from China.
The One Country Two Systems was designed to be a firewall not just to protect Hong Kong, but also China. The high quality of Hong Kong social systems and citizen’s behaviors will not be easily conveyed to China. Therefore, we don’t need to introduce the China coronavirus testing kits as this will unveil the true infection numbers and situation in China, by publishing the testing result from our Hong Kong laboratories. #iloveCCP
I had implied this “difficulty” (to Hong Kong government and China) in today morning news #NewsMagazine #nowtv.
Source: FUNG Chi Ching's Facebook
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
#NationalSecuirtyLaw #accuracy #coronavirus #TestKits #VirusTest #ProBeijingCamp
#OpinionArticle #FungChiChing
Pro-Beijing camp’s Pro-Beijing suggestion on virus tests and Kits for Hong Kong
(10 Jul) Pro-Beijing camp suggests to introduce China Wuhan virus tests and Clinical Diagnostic Kits in Hong Kong. Did they think about the accuracy of the China tests and kits? If any Hong Kong laboratories find the testing kits not accurate, it will create a doubt on the infected numbers in China, violating the National Security Law in Hong Kong. This risk for any Hong Kong testing laboratories is serious and they have no ground to take the job (accepting the China testing kits), especially those testing kits have already been challenged by overseas countries which they returned the purchase from China.
The One Country Two Systems was designed to be a firewall not just to protect Hong Kong, but also China. The high quality of Hong Kong social systems and citizen’s behaviors will not be easily conveyed to China. Therefore, we don’t need to introduce the China coronavirus testing kits as this will unveil the true infection numbers and situation in China, by publishing the testing result from our Hong Kong laboratories. #iloveCCP
I had implied this “difficulty” (to Hong Kong government and China) in today morning news #NewsMagazine #nowtv.
Source: FUNG Chi Ching's Facebook
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
#NationalSecuirtyLaw #accuracy #coronavirus #TestKits #VirusTest #ProBeijingCamp