The Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, yesterday admitted that the departure of rapid tests to detect the coronavirus purchased by the Central Government and which has been found to be defective is 650,000 units.
In this way, it far exceeds the number of 9,000 unreliable tests which had been spoken at first, and which had already been distributed in the Community of Madrid, and that of 50,000 which was later signed up, corresponds to the units that Moncloa had not yet distributed.
"The 659,000 tests will be replaced by others that provide quality standards," said Illa, emphasizing that the defective order will "not affect" the fight against Covid-19, which has already entrusted 64,059 people and killed 4,858.
In this way,
released a "reassurance message" because they have already ordered 5 million more tests on other closed operations in China.
The faulty remittance was contracted with Bioesay, which was warned on Thursday by the Beijing embassy in Spain, that it does not have a medical license or is a part of distributors recommended by Chinese authorities.
In parallel, Illa announced that the Central Government has increased the budget to purchase masks and respirators to 578 million.
