Spain, the fourth largest number of coronavirus cases in the world, has claimed that the rapid coronavirus tests they bought from China are not accurate in detecting positive cases.
Spain’s Ministry of Health, Consumer Affairs and Social Welfare said in a statement that rapid test kits supplied by Shenzhen Bioeasy were defective and had failed to correctly diagnose people when tested at hospitals.
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The Spanish newspaper El Pais reported that Spanish microbiology experts discovered that the Shenzhen Bioeasy rapid test kit can only correctly identify people with virus at 30 percent sensitivity.
China’s Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology Co Ltd said on Friday it will replace some coronavirus test kits it exported to Spain after the Spanish government deemed them too inaccurate to be used to diagnose patients.
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The Chinese Embassy in Madrid said these are not the test kits they donated to the Spanish government recently.
China’s Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology Co Ltd said on Friday it will withdraw the kits and replace some coronavirus test kits it exported to Spain.
It added that the incorrect results may be a result of a failure to collect samples or use the kits correctly. The firm said it had not adequately communicated with clients how to use the kits.
According to Johns Hopkins University, there are 65,719 cases of coronavirus in Spain, around 7 percent or more than 5,000 are dead.
