Spain Says Chinese Coronavirus Test Kits Are Unreliable

A police officer is given a swab test at Madrid city hall. Photo: AFP

SCMP: Spanish capital ditches ‘unreliable’ Chinese coronavirus test kits

* Madrid stops using the kits and health ministry asks for them to be replaced after tests suggest they only have a 30 per cent accuracy level
* Spanish government is reported to have ordered 340,000 of the kits, which the Shenzhen-based manufacturer said had an 80 per cent strike rate

Spain’s capital has stopped using a rapid Covid-19 test kit made by a Chinese company after research suggested it was not accurate enough.

Doubts over the kits’ reliability emerged as the number of confirmed cases in Spain rose sharply on Thursday to 56,188, with 4,089 deaths. Worldwide, the disease has now infected more than 468,000 and killed over 21,000.

The Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (SEIMC), one of Spain’s leading research institutes, said on its website it had found that nose swabs developed by Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology had an accuracy rate of less than 30 per cent.

Spanish newspaper El País reported that the Madrid city government had decided to stop using the Bioeasy kits and the health ministry had asked Bioeasy to replace supplies.

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WNU Editor: Spain has joined the Czech Republic in calling these test kids unreliable .... Czech Republic: China's Coronavirus Test Kits Are Faulty 80% Of The Time (March 25. 2020).

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