Some 80% of coronavirus rapid tests China donated to the Czech Republic as part of the communist country’s global goodwill effort are faulty, according to news reports.
A medical official from the Moravian-Silesian region that borders Slovakia and Poland said the test “error rate was quite high.”
According to the Czech radio site iROZHLAS, regional hygienist Pavla Svrcinova said that the tests give false positive and false negative results. She suggested that the tests only be used on people who are ending their virus-related seclusion and who have never been tested.
#coronavirus The error rate in the 150,000 test kits that the #CzechRepublic bought from #China is 80%.
The Czechs went back to the older tests, which they are doing at a rate of 900 tests per day
Typical #Chinese quality. Thanks, but no thanks China.#CCPVirus
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— Indo-Pacific News (@IndoPac_Info) March 24, 2020
A government official, however, dismissed the concerns and said the “wrong methodology” was being used for the tests. “I don't think it's a scandalous revelation that it's not working,” he said.
Another outlet, the
Taiwan News, reported that China had “give the impression that the communist regime was donating 150,000 portable, rapid COVID-19 test kits” when in fact they charged some $500,000.
China has been under fire worldwide for hiding and then lying about the coronavirus that started in Wuhan.
They have tried to answer the attacks with donations, offers of help to impacted countries, and a false claim that the United States planted the virus.
