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China testing blunders stemmed from secret deals with firms

by Dake Kang
| December 2, 2020 9:06 PM

WUHAN, China (AP) — In the early days in Wuhan, the first city first struck by the virus, getting a COVID test was so difficult that residents compared it to winning the lottery.

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