Coronavirus: China’s dire shortage of antigen test kits shows the market gap created by zero-Covid U-turn

If you search the major Chinese e-commerce platforms for “antigen test kit”, you will find limited results – and even those are not for products in stock but merely links to presales.

In China, many pharmacies are posting notices about sold-out antigen test kits and long queues are forming in front of the few stores that still have them.