Number 10 has said it 'doesn't recognise' claims that the government spent $20 million on Chinese coronavirus tests that didn't work.
The New York Times reported overnight that the government was offered 2 million test kits, but they had to collect them from a facility in China.
Officials were allegedly told told the price was $20 million "take it or leave it". At the time, Boris Johnson announced the tests could be a "real game changer" and were "as simple as a pregnancy test." It's claimed the Foreign Office scrambled officials to China to inspect the kits.
But Oxford University testing labs said they were not reliable enough to be used by the public. Downing Street said it did not recognise the figure of £2million which had been
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