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[Caixin Global] As mass Covid testing becomes China’s new normal, debate grows over who pays

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Mass Testing in Bajing

Cities including shenjen and ching ta are paying 70 % to 95% of the testing fees from their medical insurance systems. Bajing has announced its mass testing program will be funded through fiscal spending and medical insurance funds, although officials haven't publicly disclosed the proportion that will come from each source. A regular nucleic acid testing mandate across the country could cost around one point eight % of g d p or eight point four % of fiscal spending based on a cost of 20 n per individual test.

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