Australian scientists test potential Covid-19 vaccines on ferrets
	COVID-19: Rise in Vietnam’s locally transmitted, importance of social distancing stressed
	200,000 rapid test kits for large-scale Covid-19 testing has been imported into Vietnam

A Peruvian police photo showing Chinese citizen Zhang Tianxing (right) after his arrest for the unauthorised use of stolen COVID-19 tests in a street in Lima. (AFP Photo)

Zhang Tianxing, 36, was arrested in the Brena district of Lima as he was about to take samples from two women at the door of their house, police said.

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.

Both women had paid him to carry out a rapid home test, without health ministry approval.

"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, Zhang confessed to stealing two batches of the test to use, for monetary gain, on people who suspected they were ill with the coronavirus.

Police found a backpack with 25 COVID-19 tests and other medical supplies at his home.

President Martin Vizcarra said on April 8 that 330,000 rapid tests kits had arrived in Peru and were distributed to all parts of the country.

The health ministry reported it has carried out 45,272 rapid tests to Apr 12.

The South American country has so far registered 7,519 infections, with 193 deaths.

COVID-19, the disease caused by novel coronavirus, first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan, late in December. The disease quickly spread to the rest of China and the world. On March, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a global pandemic. As on April 13, the world has witnessed 1,853,505 coronavirus cases and 114,257 fatalities./.

Coronavirus can travel up to 4 metres A new study by Chinese researchers examining air samples from hospital wards with COVID-19 patients has found the virus can travel up to 4m – twice the ...

Hanoi unveils first "rice ATM" for low-income people A first "rice ATM" was put into operation in Hanoi on April 11 as a way of helping low-income earners who have suffered economically as a ...

Friendship associations exert themselves to assist the Covid-19 fight The world finds itself today facing a real crisis with human lives lost every hour to a disease called COVID-19 caused by a virus named ...

Samsung wins USD 360 million contract to produce COVID-19 treatments Samsung Biologics has won USD 360 million worth of orders for contract production of biopharmaceutical products from a San Francisco-based startup, reported The Korea Times ...