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COVID-19 testing in China:

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/in-schools-and-offices-china-steps-up-coronavirus-tests-after-taming-outbreak

At a private school run by the Hailiang Group in Zhuji, eastern Zhejiang province, some 20,000 students and teachers have taken the test since April 13.

Samples were taken from students on the playground as they stood 1.5m apart from each other. They were only authorised to go to class after getting a negative result.
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Shao Junbin, the chairman of Shanghai testing kit provider Liferiver, told AFP that his company's output capacity has increased 150 per cent since starting production in January, to reach 500,000 per day.

Liferiver - which claims a 90 per cent accuracy rate - has exported kits to European countries including France and Italy, two of the hardest-hit nations on the continent.

And the head of Australia's mining firm Fortescue announced a deal this week to import 10 million kits from Chinese genomics firm BGI Group at a lower price than rival providers.

In addition to the test kit business, China will have more data on coronavirus than anybody in the world, with Germany and South Korea not far behind.

In the meantime, the state of Maryland is hiding test kits from the federal government.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/maryland-hiding-testing-kits-purchased-south-korea-us/story?id=70434840

“That was so important to us that we wanted to make sure that plane took off from Korea safely, landed here in America safely and that we guarded that cargo from whoever might interfere with us getting that to our folks that need it,” [Maryland Governor Larry Hogan said Thursday].

The tests, worth over $9 million, were directed last week to Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall Airport instead of Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia, and both the Maryland National Guard and Maryland State Police were on hand to receive the shipment and transport the tests to a secure, undisclosed location, he said.