‘Made in China’ — Spain once again stuck with defective coronavirus tests

Published April 22, 2020 8:39pm ET



A Chinese firm just sold Spain even more defective equipment, to replace the defective equipment the Spanish had just purchased from China. As El Pais reports, the Spanish health ministry is seeking compensation after finding that an order 640,000 coronavirus tests were defective. That new supply was meant to replace previous tests that, after Spain had spent more than $500 million to get them, were also defective.

Spain’s experience here is the norm, not the exception. Among others, Australia, Britain, the Czech Republic, Finland, India, the Netherlands, Slovakia, and Turkey have all received dysfunctional tests or medical equipment purchased from China since the start of the worldwide pandemic that China’s regime created.

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