Beijing arrests lab worker for “diluting” germ samples, reducing the number of coronavirus cases
Beijing arrested a lab worker – Date 28 May Bloomberg reported that the Beijing Police China Arrest officers at the control laboratory. COVID-19 17 people were accused of failing to perform testing for COVID-19. The breach has resulted in a severe outbreak in the capital for months.
Li Ang, an official of the Beijing Local Health Commission. It said suspected lab workers conspired to dilute samples collected from the public until the device failed to detect an infection.
Residents wearing masks leave from a mass COVID test site, Friday, May 27, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
The act made it impossible for the authorities to find any patients and have no treatment or isolation. causing the spread of the COVID-19 virus to a close group of people before it spreads to a wide community
Beijing has confirmed cases of COVID-19. Daily declines continued: In the past 24 hours, a total of 26 confirmed cases of being sick and infected but asymptomatic have been found, down from 99 on May 22.
Residents wearing masks line up for mass COVID test, Friday, May 27, 2022, in Beijing. The Beijing police detained 17 employees of a Covid-19 lab for failing to test samples properly, blaming the infractions for worsening the outbreak that’s enveloped China’s capital for a month. Workers at the lab diluted samples to the point that infections may not be able to be detected, officials said at a briefing. It led to cases not being found and spawned the risk of further spread, said Li Ang, an official with the Beijing Municipal Health Commission. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Mass testing has been a hallmark of China’s Covid Zero approach and officials have mobilised a legion of private diagnostic companies to help with the process. But inaccurate results produced by some firms have led to uninfected people with false positive results being sent to makeshift hospitals in Shanghai and infections not being detected in a timely manner in Beijing. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
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