Beijing Introduces Anal Swabs Amid Tightened COVID-19 Testing Rules

Residents at a compound in Beijing’s Daxing district line up for coronavirus testing. Reuters A move by health authorities in Beijing to include anal swabs in the city’s arsenal of COVID-19 testing options has sparked an outcry on China’s tightly controlled internet. Testing stations have begun using anal swabs to test people considered to be at high risk of having COVID-19, according to a report by state broadcaster CCTV, because the technique can better detect the presence of the virus. It quoted You’an Hospital senior doctor Li Tongzeng as saying that the test was more sensitive than throat and nasal…