Spain has sent back coronavirus test kits to China for the second time because even the second batch was faulty.
The kits were sent by Shenzhen Bioeasy, a Chinese company, to replace the initial batch of 58,000 testing kits, which the government of Spain had deemed inaccurate to be utilized to diagnose the patients.
The Health Ministry of Spain confirmed the news on Wednesday and said that they are now looking forward to receiving a refund from Shenzhen Bioeasy for the complete order of 640,000 kits.
The tests were problematic because they were not sufficiently sensitive, which means there were chances that the disease would go undetected in the person who had the infection already.
As per the reports, Bioeasy had sent a sample of new kits that were analyzed in Madrid by Carlos III Health Institute and found it to be faulty.
This prompted Spain to cancel the complete order of 640,000 kits. The total order cost is unknown.
From all the kits sent by the Chinese company, the Health Ministry of Spain was forced to send 58,000 of them back in the March-end.
The Health Ministry said in its statement that testing kits supplied to them by Bioeasy was defective and did not diagnose patients when tested at hospitals correctly.
Salvador Illa, the Health Minister of Spain, noted that Spain had bought medical supplies worth $467 million from China including 5.5 million testing kits, 950 ventilators, 11 million gloves as well as more than 0.5 billion protective facial masks.
Bioeasy said that the incorrect results in the initial supply were defective due to incorrect use of kits. The firm noted that it did not communicate with its clients about how to use them.
The Prime Minister of Spain said that the coronavirus outbreak confinement rules would be relaxed gradually as per the scientific targets rather than calendar dates.
He foresees the lifting of restrictions at varying speeds in different places like rural and urban areas as the outbreak in the country is asymmetrical.
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