The Australian government announced April 29, 2020, that it had accepted 10 million COVID-19 PCR tests kits manufactured by the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), purchased in a $200 million deal brokered by Andrew Forrest, the mining billionaire, and his philanthropic arm, the Minderoo Foundation.
Other countries rejected BGI products amid genome security concerns! In 2011, BGI processed 20% of the world’s genomic capacity [1]