UK allegedly paid Chinese companies $20M for faulty coronavirus test kits

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British officials paid $20 million to a pair of Chinese companies for at-home tests kits that supposedly detected coronavirus antibodies — but they didn’t work, according to The New York Times.

The paper said the companies offered to sell the tests even though the technology hadn’t been proven effective, the cash had to be paid up front and the UK would have to go to China to get them.

But the Brits cut the deal anyway, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson — still recovering from a nasty bout of COVID-19 that landed him in the ICU — publicly praised them.

“As simple as a pregnancy test. It has the potential to be a total game changer,”Johnson said.

https://nypost.com/2020/04/17/uk-paid-chinese-companies-20m-for-faulty-coronavirus-test-kits/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

[Maleficent 6]

tHe cHInEse hAvE dONe noTHiNg wROnG 

[Rio 5,088]

Really hope we get antibody tests in this country soon. Would really like to know the virus I'm currently recovering from is 100% confirmed to be COVID-19 and if I'm immune. All signs point to it being COVID-10, considering how it was passed to me, where that person got it from, the symptoms, etc... This is the only time I've been ill in a year and it's pretty intense. The government in this country have been slightly useless if you ask me. £20m that could have gone towards the NHS 

Ugh, if only we had Merkel 

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2 minutes ago, Maleficent said:

tHe cHInEse hAvE dONe noTHiNg wROnG 

The paper said the companies offered to sell the tests even though the technology hadn’t been proven effective, the cash had to be paid up front and the UK would have to go to China to get them.
 

more like the uk’s fault for buying something they didn’t know would work 

[jezze0410 395]

From what I've read, the UK's standards for the rapid tests are very high, to the point where none of the tests that currently exist can meet all of the UK's specifications. Of course some Chinese tests are just plain bad, and of course it's good that the UK has such high standards, but given that any additional data about the virus's spread in the country is essential to the gradual restarting of economic activity, I think the UK should get on and actually use the tests for which they have already paid...

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29 minutes ago, Maleficent said:

tHe cHInEse hAvE dONe noTHiNg wROnG 

Literally nobody said that? Lol

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