{"id":205,"date":"2020-04-29T12:23:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T12:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smlnews.ug\/Luganda\/?p=205"},"modified":"2020-04-29T12:27:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T12:27:48","slug":"india-finds-chinas-corona-virus-testing-kits-faulty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smlnews.ug\/Luganda\/2020\/04\/29\/india-finds-chinas-corona-virus-testing-kits-faulty\/","title":{"rendered":"India finds China\u2019s  Corona  Virus Testing Kits faulty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over half a million coronavirus rapid\ntesting kits that India ordered from China have been found to be faulty forcing\nthem to cancel the order. The kits that were already in use in some states in\nIndia have been withdrawn after they were found to be giving false results in\nalmost 95% of cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The kits that take around 30 minutes to\ndeliver a result and are supposed to detect antibodies in the blood of people\nwho may have had the infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid concerns that India was not doing\nenough to test for the novel virus, the Indian Medical Research Council (ICMR)\nwas pushed to use the kits. The ICMR was initially reluctant, but cleared the\nway, importing the kits from two Chinese companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was however noticed that the kits\nhad an accuracy rate of only 5%, adding that they had used the kits on patients\nwho they already knew were positive, but the tests had shown a\n&#8220;negative&#8221; result for antibodies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists had also raised concerned\nthat the rapid testing kits cannot test for coronavirus itself. The test kits\nhad also failed quality checks by the ICMR. \n\nOfficials\ntold local media that the government of India will &#8220;not lose a single\nrupee&#8221; from cancelling the order kits as they had not paid the amount in\nadvance, and had cancelled the entire shipment\u201d. \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over half a million coronavirus rapid testing kits that India ordered from China have been found to be faulty forcing them to cancel the order. The kits that were already in use in some states in India have been withdrawn after they were found to be giving false results in almost 95% of cases. 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