Title: Beijing adds anal swab tests to COVID arsenal, but citizens are not taking it lying down (Viral Video Hilarious)) Source:
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Some Chinese citizens are avoiding going home for the Lunar New Year holidays after Beijing health authorities introduced anal swab tests for COVID-19.
Citizens were quoted in various media reports including Apple Daily, as saying that they would prefer to miss the holidays rather than undergo what they consider to be an intrusive, insulting, and humiliating procedure.
“Everyone involved will be so embarrassed,” one user wrote on Chinese social media site Weibo. A poll on Weibo showed that 80% of respondents “could not accept” the method, Washington Post reported.
“It’s not very harmful, but it’s very insulting,” said a user quoted in Taiwan media outlet New Talk. “”After reading the official posters, I have given up the idea of going home for the New Year,” said another.
The issue of anal swab tests also caused other criticisms of the government’s pandemic to rise to the surface, with some citizens saying the authorities’ measures are too strict, and others questioning the sensitivity of the reagent tests, according to New Talk. schematic diagram of anal swab test for COVID
Post-swab video goes viral
In the meantime, a video released by Sina News, January 29 purportedly showing patients walking out of a clinic with an unusual gait after having an anal swab test has gone viral on Chinese video-sharing platforms and social media.