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Re: Coronavirus Test Kits Have Been Contaminated With Coronavirus, Says Report

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Tue, 31 Mar 20 3:03 PM | 41 view(s)
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Oh no. Just what we don't need.

By the way, the statistic in the article about number of tests is plain wrong and so rather unhelpful.

eg as of 19 March (latest date I could find), the US had tested 103,945 people, and the UK 64,621. Given the US has a population 5 times larger, the UK has performed more than three times the number of tests per head of population.

South Korea is ahead of nearly everyone, but also had the disease before most European countries when supplies were still available.

Germany is conducting a lot of tests compared to other European countries.

Russia also seems to have had a stockpile.

http://ourworldindata.org/covid-testing

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Coronavirus Test Kits Have Been Contaminated With Coronavirus, Says Report
By: clo in ALEA
Tue, 31 Mar 20 2:15 PM 		Msg. 35137 of 54959

Coronavirus Test Kits Have Been Contaminated With Coronavirus, Says Report

Jamie Ross Reporter
Published Mar. 31, 2020

Britain’s attempts to step up its testing for the novel coronavirus have suffered a setback after some key parts of the testing kits that were due to be imported were found to have been contaminated with the coronavirus.

The Daily Telegraph reported that British labs have been told to expect a delay in the delivery some of the components of the kits after traces of the virus were detected on them. The British government has been criticized for its relatively low testing rates, which are way behind other wealthy nations like Germany, the United States, and South Korea. The government brought in foreign private firms to help produce thousands of kits, but it’s one of those suppliers—the Luxembourg-based firm Eurofins—that has told British labs that some of the components have been contaminated.

It’s not clear exactly how the contamination was allowed to happen, but government health sources told the newspaper it shouldn’t cause a big delay.

Read it at Telegraph

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