China has sold nearly four billion masks to foreign countries since March, officials said Sunday, as they tried to stem widespread fears over the quality of medical exports. Despite Chinese cases dwindling, Beijing has encouraged factories to increase production of medical supplies as the pandemic kills over 60,000 globally and parts of the world face a protective equipment shortage.

China has exported 3.86 billion masks, 37.5 million pieces of protective clothing, 16,000 ventilators and 2.84 million COVID-19 testing kits since March 1, customs official Jin Hai said, with orders to more than 50 countries.\ She added the country’s medical supply exports were valued at 10.2 billion yuan ($1.4 billion).

However numerous nations — including the Netherlands, the Philippines, Croatia, Turkey and Spain — have complained about substandard or faulty medical products shipped from China. Last week, the Dutch government recalled 600,000 masks out of a Chinese shipment of 1.3 million that did not meet quality standards. China said the manufacturer “stated clearly that (the masks) are non-surgical.”

Spain also rejected thousands of rapid test kits sent by an unauthorised Chinese company after it found that they were unreliable last week. Chinese officials hit back on Sunday at media reports over defective medical supplies, saying that they “did not reflect the full facts”.

“In reality there are various factors, such as China having different standards and different usage habits to other countries. Even improper use can lead to doubts over quality,” said Jiang Fan, an official with the Ministry of Commerce. The comments echoed remarks from Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, who over the past week has repeatedly urged Western media not to “politicise” or “hype up” the issue.

Earlier this week, Beijing tightened regulations for exported coronavirus medical equipment, requiring products to fulfill both domestic licensing standards and that of their destination countries. China has also increased its production capacity of COVID-19 testing kits to over 4 million a day, said Zhang Qi, an official with the National Medical Products Administration. AFP

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China just don make am

At this rate, China will certainly recover money spent fighting COVID-19 as well as make a handsome profit.

By the way, it was China's healthcare carelessness that caused all these in the first place. Now, they are making money off this sh*t with the rest of the world helpless. Life's not fair, men!

Criminals

Why won't they gain a lot?

Na dem na

Business time..

Life has kuku returned back to normal in Wuhan, the epicenter of the virus.

Let the world leaders continue with their games..

The world is too blind to see what China is doing.

hmm, na wha o

Where is Trumpet Trump

ItooWorWor:
Where is Trumpet Trump

It will soon sound

Over 4billion? Meanwhile We Igbos Were Berating France And USA For Sourcing For Facemasks From China? We Even Had The Temerity To Compare The Chinese Market To Aba And Their Face Masks Okayed By WHO To Our Substandard Products From Aba With A Production Capacity Yet To Hit A million And Still Begging For Approval By NCDC? So Abokis And Afonjas Are No More In Our League Again, And We Have Gone International With Our Boasting And Bid To Dominate The World Economy? By Producing Nose Masks?

"Boast Not Thyself Of Tommorrow For Thou Knoweth Not What Tommorrow Will Bring Forth"

And that may have been their interest in this madness.
Just wait till post COVID-19 era.

Yanmiriflathead:
Over 4billion? Meanwhile We Igbos Were Berating France And USA, And Asking Them To Come Buy Our Substandard Products From Aba When Our Production Capacity Is Yet To Hit Even 1million. So Abokis And Afonjas Are No More In Our League Again, And We Have Gone International With Our Boasting And Bid To Dominate The World Economy? By Producing Nose Masks?

"Boast Not Thyself Of Tommorrow For Thou Knoweth Not What Tommorrow Will Bring Forth"

How many your papa produce?

Their Useless aim.
Tomorrow someone on Nairaland will say Chinese are our friends. Their actions has increased the suffering of Nigerians

Smithkafors:

How many your papa produce?

Be Making Mouth Here NCDC Will Soon Declare Our Face Mask Counterfeit And Injurious To Health. We Mustn't Boast To Prove We Are Ahead Of Everybody. America And China Dont Boast To The Rest Of The World To Attract Importance, Their Clout And Development Is Glaring For All To See. Lets Stay Humble

ojun50:
It will soon sound

...and China comes to the rescue.

Isn't this wonderful?

The post Covid era will be full of intrigues.

ItooWorWor:
Where is Trumpet Trump

All his trade war gains vanished just like that.

Obodo adiro MMA bu uru ndi nze..If you know you know

Biodun556:

All his trade war gains vanished just like that.

Walahi chincos (chinese) really get Trump

Yanmiriflathead:
Over 4billion? Meanwhile We Igbos Were Berating France And USA For Sourcing For Facemasks From China? We Even Had The Temerity To Compare The Chinese Market To Aba And Their Face Masks Okayed By WHO To Our Substandard Products From Aba With A Production Capacity Yet To Hit A million And Still Begging For Approval By NCDC? So Abokis And Afonjas Are No More In Our League Again, And We Have Gone International With Our Boasting And Bid To Dominate The World Economy? By Producing Nose Masks?

"Boast Not Thyself Of Tommorrow For Thou Knoweth Not What Tommorrow Will Bring Forth"

Who ask you these ? You need to be tested of Tribalistic aging virus.

adekolaelect:
Who ask you these ? You need to be tested of Tribalistic aging virus.

Deal With The Pains From The Truth That We Igbos Are Boastful Nobody's.

Yanmiriflathead:


Deal With The Pains From The Truth That We Igbos Are Boastful Nobody's.

OK sir

China, the saviour of the world

ItooWorWor:

Walahi chincos (chinese) really get Trump

I can't US is dragging Chinese made Coronavirus testing kits with European countries