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China brings back anal swab testing for Covid two weeks before Winter Olympics begin
UK Daily Mail ^ | 1/21/2022 | Rachael Bunyan

Posted on 01/21/2022 2:28:31 PM PST by fruser1

At least 27 people underwent the controversial anal swab tests at an apartment building in Beijing where a 26-year-old woman had contracted Omicron, the city's first recorded case of the variant, according to Chinese newspaper The Beijing News.

The anal tests involve inserting a sterile cotton swab up to two inches (5cm) into the rectum and rotating it several times. The swab is then removed before being analysed in a lab. Anal swab testing has been used in China since 2020, but became prevalent in Beijing in January 2021 after a nine-year-old boy tested positive for the virus.

China sparked further controversy in March last year when it expanded the use of the anal swabs to any foreign travellers flying into Beijing.


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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; covid; didyousearch; olympics
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To: fruser1
The swab is then removed before being analysed in a lab.

Phew!

21 posted on 01/21/2022 3:16:23 PM PST by edwinland
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To: rktman

I have the same issue.


22 posted on 01/21/2022 3:20:02 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: fruser1

I suspect this procedure is already being used in parts of the US. Once I drove by a COVID testing center, and a sign outside said, “Testing in Rear.”

Ewwww!


23 posted on 01/21/2022 3:21:44 PM PST by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Disambiguator

Ask Laz for true meaning of Comnebtary.


24 posted on 01/21/2022 3:21:50 PM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: stevio

The problem with the “Babylon Bee” is that it has become a guide for the people in power.


25 posted on 01/21/2022 3:23:07 PM PST by Tea Party Terrorist (Eat the Rich)
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To: fruser1

Brian Boitano got in line twice!


26 posted on 01/21/2022 3:28:44 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: fruser1

Dingleberries!


27 posted on 01/21/2022 3:30:37 PM PST by glorgau
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To: fruser1

Weeeeeee!


28 posted on 01/21/2022 3:32:29 PM PST by Bigbrown
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To: Disambiguator

Watussi! Bunga bunga...


29 posted on 01/21/2022 3:38:58 PM PST by vexit
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To: fruser1

I am sure that Lia Thomas is DESPERATE to get on the US Winter Olympic Team in Beijing and be tested, often!


30 posted on 01/21/2022 3:42:34 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: fruser1

“In America, we just shake hands.”

“Does this mean we’re engaged?”

“Let me know if you see my car keys.”

‘I’m going to call you Captain Kirk because you’re going where no man has gone before.”

“If you holler up there, you’ll get an echo.”

“Can you run another swab up there? I collect them for Joy Behar.”

“I loaded her with grapeshot. Stand back!”


31 posted on 01/21/2022 3:53:17 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: fruser1

Why? Why, other than humiliation, would they do this? Why couldn’t they swab the throat if they aren’t happy with the nose?


32 posted on 01/21/2022 4:00:38 PM PST by FrogMom (Time marches on...)
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To: zeestephen

Now remember we are buying test kits from china. China has a history of recycling things.


33 posted on 01/21/2022 5:07:13 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: zeestephen

It was the State Department Fun Day!


34 posted on 01/21/2022 5:15:00 PM PST by exinnj
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To: D Rider

The line for this service will be a mile long + in san Francisco


35 posted on 01/21/2022 5:20:07 PM PST by dirtymac ( Now Is The Time For All Good Men To ComeTo The Aid Of Their Country! NOW)
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To: zeestephen

“The Chinese anal swabbed a group of USA State Department employees about a year ago.”

The chicoms did this purely for humiliation little did they know the joke was on them.


36 posted on 01/21/2022 5:45:17 PM PST by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.5 6)
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To: fruser1

So I guess Joe Biden is going attend the Olympics!


37 posted on 01/22/2022 8:08:18 AM PST by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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To: fruser1

Tell the Chinese Communists where they can shove their swabs.


38 posted on 01/22/2022 1:12:07 PM PST by Pollster1 (America is no longer in Claire Wolfe's "awkward stage")
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To: Tea Party Terrorist

LOL. Truth to that!


39 posted on 01/23/2022 5:42:43 PM PST by stevio
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To: Qiviut

If our athletes were smart, they’ll back out. I’ll take my chances and go to Berlin Olympics in 1936. At that time, the Nazis were on their best behavior. Now I have seen no reason to see the CCP doing that.


40 posted on 01/23/2022 5:45:19 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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