Peru police arrest Chinese man for illegally conducting Covid-19 tests in capital, Lima with stolen diagnostic kits
Handout photo released by the Peruvian National Police of Chinese citizen Zhang Tianxing after he was arrested for the unauthorized use of stolen Covid-19 tests in a street of Lima on April 12, 2020.
Police in Lima on Sunday arrested a Chinese citizen for illegally conducting rapid Covid-19 tests on the public with newly-delivered kits stolen from Peru's health ministry. He "was proceeding to carry out rapid tests for Covid-19 that he had stolen" from the Lima Sur health authority where he worked, according to a police statement.
Zhang was wearing a mask and a light blue medical apron at the time of his arrest by the state security police."When questioned, he acknowledged he was not authorised to carry out this rapid test and that the Rapid Diagnostic Tests had been stolen from the Directorate of Integrated Health Network of Lima Sur where he had worked," the police said.
According to the police, the bespectacled Zhang confessed to stealing two batches of the test to use, for monetary gain, on people who suspected they were ill with the coronavirus.President Martin Vizcarra said on Wednesday that 330,000 rapid tests kits had arrived in Peru and were distributed to all parts of the country.The South American country has so far registered 7,519 infections, with 193 deaths.
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