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The Chinese company Bioeasy Biotechnology, from which the Government has purchased a package of rapid tests to detect the coronavirus and which do not work, sells in Spain the unit for each of these products for 4.5 euros. This means that an order like the one made so far by the Executive chaired by Pedro Sánchez, which has amounted to 640,000 tests according to government sources, amounts to almost three million euros.

In the event that they end, complying with the forecasts revealed by the Ministry of Health, which has come to quantify between five and six million rapid diagnostic tests that will be acquired, finally, to carry out massive analyzes among the Spanish population , the final disbursement would exceed 25 million euros.

According to EL MUNDO, companies specializing in Spanish medical equipment, which have acquired this type of test in recent weeks from the company based in Shenzhen , the amount set by the company amounts to five dollars for visual tests such as those purchased by the Executive Spanish.

According to the same sources consulted by this newspaper, the usual price for this type of product amounts to two dollars under normal conditions and even less, but the pandemic has more than doubled its price.

Bioeasy has set the amount of five dollars for orders over 200,000 units, as evidenced by estimates sent recently by the Chinese company, whose content this newspaper has had access to.

The new consignment, same price

It should be remembered that these tests, which the Chinese embassy itself in Spain has already warned that they lack a license, do not work and at least 58,000 tests have been returned to Spain.

According to the analyzes carried out, their sensitivity was around 30%, which makes them useless for testing patients who carry the so-called Covid-19.

The same companies consulted by this newspaper specify that the new tests ordered by the Government to replace the previous ones, which have a fluorescence detection system, have a practically identical price.

According to the aforementioned sources, the degree of reliability of these new rapid detection tests of the Covid-19 "have a somewhat higher reliability index", but they venture that they may end up being a fiasco as the first batch and do not reliably detect the virus .

The Government has so far refused to identify the Spanish distributor that it claims to have used for the purchase of the pirate tests in China, as well as the total amount it has disbursed from the public purse.

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