| "Officials in Spain said testing kits it bought from a Chinese company had only a 30 percent accuracy rate, rather than the 80 percent rate they had expected." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/business/china-coronaviru... "Spanish medical experts, who have examined the 9,000 kits delivered last week, said they have only a 30 percent probability of detecting the virus." https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/... "The news comes following complaints from Spain that about 70 percent of the kits it purchased were too inaccurate to be used to diagnose patients who were sick and stuck in emergency rooms." https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-launches-investigation-i... "Up to 80 percent of the 150,000 portable, quick coronavirus test kits China delivered to the Czech Republic earlier this month were faulty, according to local Czech news site Expats.cz." https://news.yahoo.com/china-supplied-faulty-coronavirus-tes... |
From the first link,
> the company that made the test kits, Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology, had not been on Beijing’s list of certified providers
> Spanish health officials said they bought the tests from an unnamed third-party distributor
Furthermore, the Spanish health officials used the test wrong,
> In a statement on social media, Bioeasy said that Spanish officials did not understand how to conduct the test and that it made videos and issued instructions to help them.