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He took COVID seriously.

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Maryland spent more than $11.9 million for 500,000 COVID-19 testing kits from South Korea during the early weeks of the pandemic, but a months-long legislative audit released Friday found no comprehensive contract for the purchase or the identity of the state employee who ultimately approved it.

In April 2020, to much fanfare, Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) and first lady Yumi Hogan greeted a Korean Air cargo plane at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport for the delivery of 500,000 test kits from South Korean company LabGenomics.

But nearly all of those tests were returned on June 23, and quietly replaced with a second batch of 500,000 tests at an additional cost of $2.5 million. The combined costs of the purchases, including shipping charges totaled $11,978,634, according to the report from the Office of Legislative Audits.

The audit also revealed that it cost the state $464,369 to charter the Korean Air flight for the delivery of the first batch of tests, which the administration defended as a reasonable cost during an unprecedented set of circumstances.

Auditors concluded that there were several procurement irregularities related to the tests, including no formal written contract and incomplete documentation to support LabGenomics as the best vendor for the purchase.

https://www.marylandmatters.org/2021/04/02/audit-hogan-administration-spent-11-9-million-on-south-korean-covid-tests/

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