50,000 PPE Kits Donated By China To Indian Government Failed Quality Test

China has been in the headlines for sending substandard and faulty test kits to many countries. And with recent reports, the list may have added India.

China donated 170,000 personal protection equipment kits to India. These kits arrived in the country on April 5. Among these 170,000 kits, 50,000 didn’t pass the quality tests and were unusable.

Two other small consignments also failed the tests. The tests were carried out at the Gwalior-based laboratory of the Defence Research & Development Organisation. A source stated that kits that weren’t received approvals from FDA/CE needed to pass the tests.

Without identifying who were the donors, the source continued saying that some consignments were from big private companies in the country have also failed quality tests.

Although India is trying to domestically produce PPE kits, the government has made an order for 1 more million PPE suits through traders. These suits will come from China only.

This isn’t the first incident that products from China are unusable. Last month, after finding that the detection rate was only 30%, Spain returned to China a batch of testing kits for COVID-19.

The same incident happened to the Czech Republic. Up to 80% of the 10,000 portable, quick COVID-19 testing kits the Czech Republic received from China were faulty.

Meanwhile, China has sent 650,000 more medical kits to India, according to Vikram Misri, Indian Ambassador to China.

In the next 15 days, more than two million testing kits will arrive in India. But given how things seem to be going, strict safety checks should be conducted.

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