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(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it received eight pages of email communications from the U.S. Department of State revealing concerns by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing that U.S. diplomatic personnel were being asked to submit to an anal swab COVID testing policy. The redacted documents show that at as many as two people were either asked or required to take an anal test for COVID by the Chinese government. Judicial Watch obtained the records in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the State Department for non-identifying records of U.S. diplomatic personnel being subjected...

CHINA ordered US diplomats to undergo ANAL swab tests for Covid sparking fury with the State Department. Its is alleged the diplomats were forced to undergo the swabs due to an administrative error, Vice reports. A spokesperson said: "The State Department never agreed to this kind of testing and protested directly to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when we learned that some staff were subject to it." "We have instructed staff to decline this test if it is asked of them, as was done in the past," they said. China's foreign ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, dismissed the claims saying, "To...

China on Thursday (Feb 25) said it had never asked US diplomats to undergo COVID-19 anal swabs, following American media reports that State Department personnel had complained of being subjected to the intrusive test. But Beijing rebuffed reports from Vice and Washington Post - citing US officials - that State Department employees in China had been given the test "in error", despite diplomats being exempt from the procedure. "China has never requested US diplomatic personnel in China to undergo anal swabs," foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a regular press briefing Thursday.

We’ve been playing the blame game about coronavirus for months now here in the United States. It’s President Donald Trump’s fault that the pandemic got out of hand. Or Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s. Or Mayor Bill de Blasio’s. We’ve leveled blame at people who refuse to wear masks. Or those who continue to gather in large groups. It’s gotten political. It’s turned Americans against each other. Everybody’s got some blood on their hands. But we have to remember where this pandemic started: China. And we have to remember that that country’s Communist rulers lied about the virus from day one. That’s...

More than a million Beijing residents undergoing coronavirus testing amid a fresh outbreak have been administered anal swabs, which are considered more accurate and raise the chances of detecting COVID-19, said a Chinese disease specialist. The key districts of Daxing and Dongcheng began a mass testing drive on Friday after a nine-year-old boy tested positive for the more virulent strain of the virus, first discovered in London and the southeast of England last month. Health authorities in the Chinese capital said they were aiming to screen more than two million people in 48 hours. Among them, around 1.6 million inhabitants...