The COVID-19 rapid test kits provided by China were found sub-standard in multiple European countries. As the Czech Republic news outlets reported, the error rate of the rapid COVID test kits from China is as high as 80 percent. Spain also purchased 5,500,000 rapid COVID test kits from China and found they give incorrect results for 70 percent of the time.
Fernando Simón, the head of Spain’s health-emergencies coordination center, said on March 26 that Spain checked the first batch of test kits provided by China. Nine thousand of them were found to be faulty.
Fernando Simón: “A company sent an initial batch of 9,000 tests. Through quality assurance testing at the National Center of Epidemiology and hospitals in Madrid, it was shown that the specifications of this batch of tests did not correspond to the quality certificates. So, we returned that batch of tests. The company will exchange them for another type of test.”
It has been reported that Spain always used the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) testing to confirm infection by the COVID-19 virus. It takes about 4 hours to provide results. The Chinese Communist Party claimed that the rapid test kits they produced could provide results immediately by placing a patient’s nasal swab into the kits.
The Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology announced that the batch of rapid test kits provided by China had an accuracy rate of less than 30 percent. They don’t meet the standard accuracy rate of 80 percent.
The Czech Republic news outlets recently reported that the error rate of China’s rapid test kits is as high as 80%. The medical staff will have to continue using the conventional methodology to confirm the CCP virus infection.
