Reporter : Li Yun
Editor : Zhu Xinrui
Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television
Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/b5/2020/03/31/a102812212.html
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Image : Anti-epidemic materials. Getty Images.
With the spread of the COVID-19 (covid, in short) pandemic, the China Communist Party (CCP) exported medical supplies to many countries in Europe and Asia, but scandals around waves of returns have emerged as a result of substandard materials.
For example, the Netherlands announced the recall of hundreds of thousands of substandard Chinese-made masks. The Philippines, Spain, the Czech Republic, Turkey, and Malaysia also criticized China's virus-based rapid test reagents for too high an error rate and could not be used.
On 21 February 2020, China Daily reported that "China donated 10 million masks to Malaysia." However, Malaysia’s Minister of Transport Wei Jiaxiang clarified publicly that the masks were actually purchased by the Malaysian government from the Communist Party of China and not donated by the Communist government.
The Italian media "IL Foglio" published an article on the official website of the Italian female journalist Guilia Pompili on February 26, stating that the Italian Foreign Minister announced that China had given Italy 20,000 sets of protective clothing, 50,000 doses of inspection reagents, 100,000 masks, 1,000 respirators, in fact, this is just a trade between China and Italy.
The article said that what China sent was not a donation, and there was nothing free. The Italian foreign minister called the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to put forward procurement requirements, and Wang Yi was responsible for drawing up Chinese manufacturers who could supply.
At present, the medical supplies that cause quality problems are not only donated by the CCP, but also purchased from other countries through commercial transactions.
The Netherlands imported 1.3 million masks from China, and 600,000 were defective. Dutch officials have urgently recalled the masks issued.
A statement from the Dutch Ministry of Health stated that the batch of masks not only failed to meet the EU FFP2 standard for filtering 95% of particulate matter, but even the lower standard FFP1 failed. However, some have been distributed to front-line hospitals. After inspection, it was found that these masks had more than one defect, including that the FFP2 filter membrane was out of specification and could not cover the face normally.
A spokesman for Catharina Hospital in the Netherlands said that these batches of inferior masks are not a single case. "There are still many" junks "on the market, and some people use the current crisis to profit."
Not only are the masks inferior, but the quality of the rapid test reagents donated by the CCP is also questionable.
The CCP donated 100,000 test kits to the Philippines, but Maria Rosario Vergeire, Deputy Minister of Health of the Philippines, said at a press conference on 28 February 2020 that after comparing with the test agent provided by the WHO, it was found that accuracy of some reagent is only 40 per cent, and the authorities have stated that it will not be used.
However, after the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines issued the statement "Resolutely Oppose ... Interfering with China-Philippines Cooperation in Fighting the Epidemic", the Philippine Ministry of Health changed the same day and stated that only 40 per cent of the reagents were donated by a private foundation.
The 340,000 fast-screening kits bought by Spain from China, with an inaccuracy rate of more than 70 per cent, were approved as "inferior" and "untrustworthy." In the past week, countries including the Czech Republic and Turkey have also reported that the inaccuracy rate of the fast-screening reagent kits purchased from China has been above 70 per cent, which is unusable at all, so they have decided to give up.
On 30 March 2020, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Hua Chunying lied in response to related incidents that when foreign countries made purchase requests to China through diplomatic channels, the ministry would recommend relevant enterprises to negotiate, but did not reflect a problem with the materials.
She also claimed that at the beginning of the outbreak in China, China had received substandard materials, but she gave no examples.
US Congressman Michael McCaul recently said, "When China’s anti-epidemic materials are scarce, the world has donated a large amount of medical equipment to China. However, after the Chinese Communist Party allowed the virus to spread domestically and globally, it now sells defective medical supplies and collects fees to those countries in need, exacerbating the epidemic crisis, which is too shameful."
Editor : Zhu Xinrui
Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television
Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/b5/2020/03/31/a102812212.html
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Image : Anti-epidemic materials. Getty Images.
With the spread of the COVID-19 (covid, in short) pandemic, the China Communist Party (CCP) exported medical supplies to many countries in Europe and Asia, but scandals around waves of returns have emerged as a result of substandard materials.
For example, the Netherlands announced the recall of hundreds of thousands of substandard Chinese-made masks. The Philippines, Spain, the Czech Republic, Turkey, and Malaysia also criticized China's virus-based rapid test reagents for too high an error rate and could not be used.
On 21 February 2020, China Daily reported that "China donated 10 million masks to Malaysia." However, Malaysia’s Minister of Transport Wei Jiaxiang clarified publicly that the masks were actually purchased by the Malaysian government from the Communist Party of China and not donated by the Communist government.
The Italian media "IL Foglio" published an article on the official website of the Italian female journalist Guilia Pompili on February 26, stating that the Italian Foreign Minister announced that China had given Italy 20,000 sets of protective clothing, 50,000 doses of inspection reagents, 100,000 masks, 1,000 respirators, in fact, this is just a trade between China and Italy.
The article said that what China sent was not a donation, and there was nothing free. The Italian foreign minister called the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to put forward procurement requirements, and Wang Yi was responsible for drawing up Chinese manufacturers who could supply.
At present, the medical supplies that cause quality problems are not only donated by the CCP, but also purchased from other countries through commercial transactions.
The Netherlands imported 1.3 million masks from China, and 600,000 were defective. Dutch officials have urgently recalled the masks issued.
A statement from the Dutch Ministry of Health stated that the batch of masks not only failed to meet the EU FFP2 standard for filtering 95% of particulate matter, but even the lower standard FFP1 failed. However, some have been distributed to front-line hospitals. After inspection, it was found that these masks had more than one defect, including that the FFP2 filter membrane was out of specification and could not cover the face normally.
A spokesman for Catharina Hospital in the Netherlands said that these batches of inferior masks are not a single case. "There are still many" junks "on the market, and some people use the current crisis to profit."
Not only are the masks inferior, but the quality of the rapid test reagents donated by the CCP is also questionable.
The CCP donated 100,000 test kits to the Philippines, but Maria Rosario Vergeire, Deputy Minister of Health of the Philippines, said at a press conference on 28 February 2020 that after comparing with the test agent provided by the WHO, it was found that accuracy of some reagent is only 40 per cent, and the authorities have stated that it will not be used.
However, after the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines issued the statement "Resolutely Oppose ... Interfering with China-Philippines Cooperation in Fighting the Epidemic", the Philippine Ministry of Health changed the same day and stated that only 40 per cent of the reagents were donated by a private foundation.
The 340,000 fast-screening kits bought by Spain from China, with an inaccuracy rate of more than 70 per cent, were approved as "inferior" and "untrustworthy." In the past week, countries including the Czech Republic and Turkey have also reported that the inaccuracy rate of the fast-screening reagent kits purchased from China has been above 70 per cent, which is unusable at all, so they have decided to give up.
On 30 March 2020, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Hua Chunying lied in response to related incidents that when foreign countries made purchase requests to China through diplomatic channels, the ministry would recommend relevant enterprises to negotiate, but did not reflect a problem with the materials.
She also claimed that at the beginning of the outbreak in China, China had received substandard materials, but she gave no examples.
US Congressman Michael McCaul recently said, "When China’s anti-epidemic materials are scarce, the world has donated a large amount of medical equipment to China. However, after the Chinese Communist Party allowed the virus to spread domestically and globally, it now sells defective medical supplies and collects fees to those countries in need, exacerbating the epidemic crisis, which is too shameful."
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