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A domestic coronavirus (corona) infection diagnostic kit exported to the United States in April was embroiled in a controversy over reliability. It means that false positives (false positives) were frequently judged.
At the time, the governor of Maryland, who imported 500,000 copies of the diagnostic kit for $ 9 million (10.4 billion won), became a hot topic by being called the “ Korean son-in-law, ” and the Korean government promoted the case as “ Quarantine K achievements. ”
On the 18th (local time), the Baltimore Sun, Maryland’s largest newspaper, published an article titled ‘University of Maryland Research Institute Stops Using Highly Acclaimed Korean Diagnostic Kits Due to Frequent False Positives’ ‘.
In an article, the Baltimore Ship reported: “It appears that hundreds of thousands of Korean-made corona diagnostic kits, which were imported en masse from Korea in April, when Maryland Governor Larry Hogan made a fanfare. It was due to frequent false positive trials in major nursing homes. A representative group of local nursing homes is said to have confirmed that false positives were tried one after another at various facilities.
The Baltimore Ship quoted a University of Maryland spokesperson as saying: “As a result of running thousands of tests on ‘Lab Gun’, a diagnostic kit for (Korean company) ‘Lab Genomics’, in a laboratory on the campus of Baltimore from the University of Maryland, the diagnostic kit will no longer be used. It has been confirmed that we have decided not to do so, ”she wrote. The University of Maryland is an institution that performs corona diagnostics for a $ 2.5 million (about 3 billion won) fee from the state government in April.
The University of Maryland told the media: “We are investigating the test results that have been confirmed from 2 to 8 this month. It may have been affected by several variables, but it is not a laboratory equipment problem.” He said, “We will test for corona and flu at the same time replacing it with a diagnostic kit developed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), not with Lab Genomics diagnostic kit. “.
LabGnomics’ diagnostic kit, Labgun, was a hot topic in the region last April when Governor Hogan imported a large number of quantities capable of running 500,000 tests. The import price was $ 9 million (about 10.4 billion won). At the time, KTV under the Korean government reported that “our ‘K-Defense’ is attracting the attention of the whole world.” The New York Times of the United States reported that at the time, “ Governor Hogan’s wife, Yumi Hogan, played an important role by speaking on the phone in the middle of the night in the negotiation process.
Regarding the report on the Baltimore Line, Rapgenomics said: “We also confirm the report. However, the University of Maryland Research Institute has never received any contact regarding the controversy. “A Labgenomics official said:” We are awaiting the results of the detailed investigation from the university’s research institute. We are weighing the possibility of contamination in the inspection process and will respond according to the results. “
The diagnostic kit exported to the United States has not been approved for emergency use by the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is not currently used in Korea.
