Xinhua reported that the Czech Republic bought 150,000 novel coronavirus testing kits and, on March 18, used its military plane to ship them back. “Czech Republic Minister of Health Adam Vojtěch said these kits would be sent to the locked down areas where the pandemic is severe. It can give results in 20 minutes.” Xinhua said that Czech’s traditional testing equipment needed 6 hours to give a result.
“The Czech Republic’s Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said that they received considerable help from China’s Embassy to the Czech Republic in sending a military plane to China to bring the emergency medical supplies back.”
However, on March 23, the Czech news media iROZHLAS reported that 80 percent of China’s quick testing kits produced the wrong result in their testing.
Experts reported on this high error rate at a pandemic information meeting that a regional hygienist Pavla Svrcinova hosted. Svrcinova said that these test kits produced “fake positives” and “fake negatives” when they were compared with the traditional testing results. “It is fortunate that we took this forward-thinking action (to validate the testing kits).”
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1. Excerpt in Chinese:
新华社布拉格3月18日电（记者杨晓红）捷克军队一架载有从中国订购的15万套新冠肺炎病毒快速检测试剂盒的专机18日凌晨降落在布拉格北郊的克贝利机场。
捷克卫生部长亚当·沃伊捷赫说，这批检测试剂盒将被分送到因疫情严重被封锁的地区，供一些大医院以及警察、士兵和消防员进行快速检测使用，最快20多分钟能检测出结果。据了解，此前在捷克使用的新冠肺炎病毒检测设备需要6小时才能出结果。
捷克总理巴比什表示，捷克此次派军机去中国运回急需医用物资的行动得到中国驻捷克大使馆的多方面帮助。他在16日会见中国驻捷克大使张建敏时曾表示希望同中方在疫情防控、治疗经验等方面加强交流合作。
Source: Xinhua, March 19, 2020
http://www.xinhuanet.com/2020-03/19/c_1125732627.htm
2. Excerpt in Chinese:
捷克媒体透露，该国购买了中共吹捧的中共病毒（武汉肺炎）快速检测试剂盒，但没想到其中80%的检测结果是错误的，这迫使捷克医护人员不得不继续依靠常规实验室进行检测。
捷克新闻网站iROZHLAS周一透露，当地医护人员发现，大量来自中国的测试剂都显示出错误的测试结果。区域卫生学家帕夫拉·斯维奇诺娃（Pavla Svrcinova）在摩拉维亚-西里西亚地区组织了一次疫情会议，会上专家们说测试剂的错误率竟高达80%，这促使当地官员们建议，仅对那些隔离期快届满的、从未检测出阳性的人进行测试。
她补充说，这些测试会产生出“假阳性”和“假阴性”。斯维奇诺娃说，“我们测试了那些在采样点的人，通过立即将样本与传统测试进行比较，我们发现了（中国快速）测试的错误率。幸运的是，我们这么做很有远见。
Source: Epoch Times, March 20, 2020
https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/20/3/25/n11974438.htm