TEL AVIV—The Israeli Ministry of Health has ordered hospital laboratories and Magen David Adom (the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross) to immediately stop using approximately 10,000 contaminated swab test kits from China. The COVID-19 tests were in-use and may have already been used to test thousands of Israelis.
The problem surfaced after lab experts noticed that the color inside the test tube was not what they expected to see, and as a result, it was impossible to tell if the tests were coming back positive or negative.
