China and Pakistan may be allies but the former's recent ‘under'-handed stunt may have just added insult to injury.

A video of a Pakistani reporter saying "China ne chuna laga diya” has been going viral on the internet. Why, you ask? Well, according to various reports, China has apparently sent masks made of underwear to Pakistan instead of the promised N-95 masks to help deal with coronavirus outbreak.

In the video the reporter can be heard saying, "China has conned us. They said they would send n-95 masks to Sindh but they sent masks made of undergarments. The Sindh government too, without making checks sent the masks to the hospital where the doctors and nurses declared the masks to be a joke.”

This is not the first such incident to come from China either. Spain recently returned a batch of coronavirus testing kits back to China after it was found that their detection rate was just 30 per cent.

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Reports of faulty test kits also came from Czech Republic. Local Czech site Expats.cz reported that ‘up to 80 per cent of the 150,000 portable, quick coronavirus testing kits China delivered to the Czech Republic earlier this month were faulty’.

The results are produced in 10-15 minutes but they are less accurate than other tests so the country has decided to rely on its on lab tests.

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However, given that Pakistan has always shown loyalty towards China, the incident does seem a little shocking if true.