CHINA / SOCIETY By Fan Anqi Published: Jan 18, 2021 07:53 PM
Residents in Xiongan New Area, North China s Hebei Province queue up for nucleic acid tests on January 14. Photo: VCG
The governor of North China s Hebei Province has demanded a rescreening of all COVID-19 testing results carried out by third-party agencies in a bid to detect loopholes or falsifying of data, after one of the agencies in charge of sample processing in Longyao county, Xingtai reportedly hid three positive results, despite the coronavirus outbreak ravaging the region.
Jinan Huaxi Medical Laboratory, which was hired to process COVID-19 tests in Longyao, reported on Thursday to the local health commission that it had finished the analysis of some 310,000 swab samples taken from the county s residents, which had all returned negative results, when in fact it had not even completed the testing.