Claim: Data from the World Integrated Trade Solutions website shows that Covid-19 testing kits were being bought and sold by countries long before the pandemic.
Fact-check: This data does not show tests for coronavirus being ordered pre-2020 - Full Fact
Verdict: the data shows imports and exports of general testing kits which have since been classified as for covid-19 during the pandemic.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Rachael Krishna
Date published: 2020-09-08T00:00:00