China clamps down on coronavirus test kit exports after accuracy questioned

FILE PHOTO: Reuters reporter Brenda Goh receives a nucleic acid test for COVID-19 in Wuhan, Hubei province, the epicenter of China's coronavirus disease outbreak, March 28, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo

Some Chinese test kit makers had been taking advantage of easier European Union regulations to get their products into the market before they were approved at home. Spain withdrew a batch of rapid tests manufactured by Chinese diagnostics firm Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology after the product was found to have low sensitivity, which means they were unable to detect infection sufficiently.

The preliminary conclusion from the Chinese consulate in Slovakia was that the inaccuracies were the result of medical workers using the kit incorrectly, the spokeswoman said.Bioeasy’s rapid tests, as well as the tests questioned by Slovak officials, are antigen tests, a method that targets the virus’ protein to detect infection and can deliver results more quickly than the alternative nucleic acid method.

A stricter rule will come into force in 2022 that will require many infectious disease diagnostic product manufacturers to follow procedures that can take up to a year or more to get a CE mark that indicates approval to be legally sold in European countries. “Our reagents don’t have certificate and cannot be exported,” the company’s marketing director Feng Zhenzhen said, adding the firm is “actively” applying for Chinese regulator’s approval.

what is he doing?

no wonder China got no new cases lately

Possibly why there haven't been any new local cases ! test 100% of the people : result for only 30% !

fuckchina

Seriously they have to stop their nonsense.

Then don't beg and buy from them! Look at these incompetent governments, the price for the PPE, masks ventilators,inspiratory won't skyrocket.

Yeah right🙄Only fakes are real in China🙄

Don't buy anything from China. It's like manufacturing on skid row but worse! Add open air slaughter markets to skid row, along with deceptive business practices and you'll end up with China. We can't trust them.

Buy them from korea or Germany.

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