China Is Using Anal Swabs to Detect More Coronavirus Cases


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In the first month of the new year, China began noticing an unexpected rise in COVID-19 cases in the country. To control local outbreaks, the authorities are now using anal swabs to detect Coronavirus affected people. The Chinese officials said last week that the anal swabs had been administered to more than 1,000 students and teachers at a school which is located in Beijing’s Daxing district after a nine-year-old boy tested positive for the COVID-19. Even though China contained the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the second half of 2020, the country is facing new threats from the virus variants found…

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