{"id":16416,"date":"2020-03-27T18:56:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T09:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/27\/coronavirus-test-kits-withdrawn-spain-poor-accuracy-rate"},"modified":"2020-03-27T18:56:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T09:56:38","slug":"coronavirus-test-kits-withdrawn-in-spain-over-poor-accuracy-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16416","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus test kits withdrawn in Spain over poor accuracy rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Batch with only 30% detection rate was bought by health officials from Chinese supplier<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Spanish government has withdrawn 9,000 Chinese-made coronavirus testing kits from use after it emerged that they had an accurate detection rate of just 30%.<\/p>\n<p>Like other countries struggling to diagnose and treat the virus, Spain has looked to China for rapid testing kits equipment and much-needed supplies, and announced this week that it would spend \u20ac432m (\u00a3390m) on tests, masks, gloves and other personal protective equipment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/27\/coronavirus-test-kits-withdrawn-spain-poor-accuracy-rate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batch with only 30% detection rate was bought by health officials from Chinese supplierCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Spanish government has withdrawn 9,000 Chinese-made coronavirus testing kits from use after it emerge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,918,50,1069,221,914,512,916,299,746,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biology","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-europe","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-spain","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16417,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16416\/revisions\/16417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}