{"id":103819,"date":"2020-03-15T18:05:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T01:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/fake-coronavirus-testing-kits-seized-at-los-angeles-airport"},"modified":"2020-03-15T18:05:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T01:05:06","slug":"fake-coronavirus-testing-kits-seized-at-los-angeles-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/fake-coronavirus-testing-kits-seized-at-los-angeles-airport","title":{"rendered":"Fake coronavirus testing kits seized at Los Angeles airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fake-coronavirus-testing-kits-seized-at-los-angeles-airport.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Federal authorities warned consumers Saturday about fake home-testing kits for the <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/Coronavirus\" id=\"_ap_link_coronavirus_Coronavirus_\" target=\"_blank\">coronavirus<\/a> after customs agents intercepted a package at Los Angeles International Airport filled with vials labeled as COVID-19 test kits.<\/p>\n<p>The parcel arriving from the <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/UnitedKingdom\" id=\"_ap_link_United Kingdom_UnitedKingdom_\" target=\"_blank\">United Kingdom<\/a> this week was declared as purified water vials valued at nearly $200. But when U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspected it they discovered the labels referring to the new virus that began in China and has spread globally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American public should be aware of bogus home testing kits for sale either online or in informal direct to consumer settings,\u201d the agency said in a statement Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Federal authorities warned consumers Saturday about fake home-testing kits for the coronavirus after customs agents intercepted a package at Los Angeles International Airport filled with vials labeled as COVID-19 test kits. The parcel arriving from the United Kingdom this week was declared as purified water vials valued at nearly $200. But when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}