Bizarre Revelation: Coronavirus Anal Swabs Allegedly Used On US Diplomats — China Denies

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American diplomats allegedly required to go through anal swab testing to test for the coronavirus, according to the Daily Wire.

Zhao Lijian said, “I have checked with my colleagues. As far as I know, China has never required U.S. diplomatic staff in the country to take anal swab tests.”

The test “involves a cotton-tipped swab inserted around 3 cm to 5 cm — 1 to 2 inches — into the rectum, with the swab then tested in a lab in the same way a polymerase-chain-reaction coronavirus test taken from the nose or throat is.”

Vice reported that The Chinese government has promised to stop using anal swabs on American diplomats.

“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.”

“The Washington Post reported last week that some U.S. personnel had told the department they had been subjected to the anal tests,” Yahoo reported.

“Tests using anal swabs can avoid missing infections as viral traces in fecal samples or anal swabs could remain detectable for longer periods than in those from the respiratory tract, Li Tongzeng, a respiratory diseases doctor in Beijing, told state TV recently,” The New York Post reported. “Stool tests also may be more effective in detecting infections in kids as their waste carries a higher viral load than adults, researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong said in a paper published last year.”

“China’s disclosures to the WHO raise questions about the possibility that Covid-19 — which has now killed more than 2.3 million people— was already spreading in China as far back as October 2019 and that earlier detection could have helped contain the outbreak before it became a global pandemic,” the Journal reported.

“During the WHO delegation’s visit, investigators said they received medical records from Chinese authorities related to about 92 cases of people from the 233 institutions canvassed by Chinese authorities across Hubei. All 92 had suffered from pneumonia or other Covid-19-like symptoms. Chinese authorities subjected those patients to antibody tests in recent months.”

From The Daily Wire:

Earlier this month, the World Health Organization announced that it had discovered that 92 people were hospitalized with Covid-19-like symptoms in October 2019 in the same province that contains Wuhan, two months before the Chinese government had previously acknowledged the disease was identified, The Wall Street Journal reported. Those 92 subjects either contracted pneumonia or other symptoms similar to COVID-19.