Coronavirus: India gets 'faulty' testing kits from China Isn't it time we MPs ask -- Did the Govt take away our MPLADS funds to pay for faulty testing kits from China? Who is responsible for wasting public money & putting public health at risk?

1/9 Been reading the comments on this issue on social media. This thread responds, disregarding the usual whataboutery & lame refs to "70 years of @INCIndia rule" (though i didn't know Vajpayeeji had joined our party: posthumously, seeing what's happened to BJP, he well might!)

2/9 "What can Modi do about it? Many other countries also had the same experience."
Yes, that's exactly the point. How smart is a government if it does not learn from the mistakes of other govts? Isn't it foolishness to make the same mistake at the cost of public health& money?

3/9 The EU Medicine Agency’s guidelines, on par with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC), require that rapid tests be 80% accurate. Chinese kits bought by India have shown an average of 5% accuracy, which is the lowest by their own standards.

4/9 China said that the kits should be procured from authorised manufacturers. One of the companies that India ordered from is the same company that the UK govt had ordered&then rejected for being flawed. The British are seeking a $20 million refund from the two Chinese companies

5/9 Spain, w/one of the largest counts of positive cases, returned around 600,000 faulty kits to China. Czech&Filipino authorities also discarded testing kits imported from China, claiming they had only 20%& 40% accuracy respectively. Slovak PM: "throw straight into the Danube”.