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| The police in a city in central China have detained the manager of a regional coronavirus testing laboratory on suspicion of “committing acts that caused the spread of the coronavirus or seriously increased the danger of spreading it.” |
| In a brief statement, the police in Xuchang, a city in Henan Province, also said that the authorities in the nearby city of Yuzhou were investigating the man, identified only by his surname, Zhang, for “serious criminal offenses,” but they did not provide more details. |
| The detention, announced on Wednesday, comes as China faces its largest surge in coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, an effort that has relied heavily on mass testing to ferret out cases. More than 20 million people across at least five Chinese cities are under lockdown as officials seek to tamp down outbreaks before the start of the Beijing Olympics in three weeks. |
| Guangzhou KingMed Diagnostics Group, the parent company of the testing laboratory, said in a statement on Wednesday that the employee had been working with local health departments in Yuzhou to assist with the logistics of the city’s mass-testing campaign. The company said the employee had not been involved in any of the laboratory testing and called reports that he had purposely spread the virus, lost samples and fabricated and withheld data “rumors and false information.” |
| Founded in 2003, KingMed Diagnostics Group is one of the largest third-party coronavirus testing providers in China, with 37 laboratories around the country, according to the company’s website. Zhong Nanshan, one of China’s top medical advisers, is a member of its academic advisory committee, according to an article posted on the company’s website. |
| Yuzhou, a city of 1.1 million in Henan, has been in lockdown for more than a week after the discovery of three asymptomatic cases this month. Since then, the authorities have carried out at least seven rounds of mass testing as part of a broader effort to realize China’s “zero Covid” strategy. As of Wednesday, Yuzhou had reported 275 confirmed cases in the recent outbreak. |
| There have been several incidents involving testing companies in China since the start of the pandemic. In January 2021, a testing company employee was detained in the northern province of Hebei for reporting a sample of hundreds of thousands of residents as negative before the testing was completed. |
| The sample was later discovered to include several positive cases, according to the Chinese state media. |
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