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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
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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
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Germany received 11 million defective or failed Chinese face masks
//the masks that arrived from China turned out to be “rubbish”, according to the German newspaper Der Spiegel... the chinstrap arrived with the filters in poor condition and with the broken tapes. “All Trash,” the source told the over 11 million masks.
//Germany thus joins the long list of scams. Yesterday, the Canadian Department of Health revealed that one million KN95 masks purchased from China were found to be defective. They do not meet federal quality standards for use against coronavirus, and therefore were not distributed among healthcare personnel.
//Since March 1, the Asian giant has exported to 3.8 countries of 3,860 million masks, 37.5 million protective suits, 16,000 respirators and 2.84 million diagnostic kits.
//However, almost two months later, complaints from different countries about the quality of products grow.
Holland is another country that integrates that list. On March 28, he denounced that 600,000 masks did not meet quality standards.
Full article: Archyworldys, (27 Apr)
#Germany #Spain #Holland #Coronavirus #Defective #Masks #MadeInChina
Germany received 11 million defective or failed Chinese face masks
//the masks that arrived from China turned out to be “rubbish”, according to the German newspaper Der Spiegel... the chinstrap arrived with the filters in poor condition and with the broken tapes. “All Trash,” the source told the over 11 million masks.
//Germany thus joins the long list of scams. Yesterday, the Canadian Department of Health revealed that one million KN95 masks purchased from China were found to be defective. They do not meet federal quality standards for use against coronavirus, and therefore were not distributed among healthcare personnel.
//Since March 1, the Asian giant has exported to 3.8 countries of 3,860 million masks, 37.5 million protective suits, 16,000 respirators and 2.84 million diagnostic kits.
//However, almost two months later, complaints from different countries about the quality of products grow.
Holland is another country that integrates that list. On March 28, he denounced that 600,000 masks did not meet quality standards.
Full article: Archyworldys, (27 Apr)
#Germany #Spain #Holland #Coronavirus #Defective #Masks #MadeInChina