Police impound 3 trucks of Chinese-made COVID test kits bound for Cambodia

[webfact]

 

Thai police stopped three pickup trucks today (Sunday), loaded with Chinese-made rapid antigen test kits, as they were heading for Cambodia via a border crossing in the eastern province of Sa Kaeo.

 

Police said they decided to impound all the test kits after the drivers of the three trucks could not produce any documentation to prove their origin or a letter certifying the quality of the kits, issued by the Thai Food and Drugs Administration.

 

Pol Col Niwatchai Sukthayarak, superintendent of Khlong Hat police station in Sa Kaeo province, said today that a Cambodian national, who claimed to be the owner of the kits,had presented some documents to the police, which are now being examined to determine their authenticity.

 

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[hotchilli]

Dodgy dealings on the move again.

[Lacessit]

Some Chinese kits are defective design, returning false negatives. The Thai Health Ministry bought 1 billion baht's worth of them, perhaps they are being palmed off to the Cambodians.

[RichardColeman]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

a Cambodian national, who claimed to be the owner of the kits,had presented some documents to the police, which are now being examined to determine their authenticity.

Probably all been sold on by now and authenticity declared fake

[MrJ2U]

14 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Some Chinese kits are defective design, returning false negatives. The Thai Health Ministry bought 1 billion baht's worth of them, perhaps they are being palmed off to the Cambodians.

Just like the masks.

 

Not much trickles down.  They just resell them to the highest bidder.

 

In this case, innacurate test kits.