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  • Report: China Brings Back ‘Anal Swab’ Coronavirus Tests in Beijing

    01/21/2022 9:29:48 AM PST · by Red Badger · 55 replies
    https://www.breitbart.com ^ | 20 JANUARY 2022 | JOHN HAYWARD
    Local media in China’s capital of Beijing report that with only two weeks to go before the Winter Olympics begin, city health authorities have resumed a controversial practice from early in the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic: using anal swabs to check for infections. Insider on Wednesday translated a report from the state-owned Beijing News that described at least 27 residents of an apartment building in the Haidian district getting the anal swab test last week. The Beijing News article mentioned the curious practice in passing. There was only a single reference to the swabs piled up among the equipment carried by...
  • China makes COVID-19 anal swabs mandatory for foreigners

    03/03/2021 3:28:04 PM PST · by lightman · 71 replies
    NY Post ^ | 3 March A.D. 2021 | Jackie Salo
    China has made anal COVID-19 swabs mandatory for all foreign travelers arriving in the country, a report said Wednesday. The government has claimed that such tests provides a higher degree of accuracy than other screening methods for the virus, the Times UK reported... Li Tongzeng, a respiratory disease medic, said that the anal swabs are better because virus traces stay longer in fecal samples than they do in the nose or throat, state media reported... “Some Japanese reported to our embassy in China that they received anal swab tests, which caused a great psychological pain,” Katsunobu Kato, Japan’s chief cabinet...
  • Covid anal swabs more accurate than nasal test

    02/14/2021 6:22:16 PM PST · by mythenjoseph · 83 replies
    The Star ^ | 2/6/2021 | Lewis Nyandi
    A news article published by Newsweek.com claimed that the Chinese government has rolled out the anal swab in testing for Covid-19.