RE: 3,000 a day upper limit of testing8 Feb 2020 08:59
Thanks Solstace, indeed a lot more tests are needed, 400 million quarantined already and tests have to be repetitive per case. From the same article you posted:
“400 million Chinese people have been quarantined. | Source: Twitter
Evidence suggests that the Chinese government doesn’t have the resources to diagnose more cases. This would mean that coronavirus is still growing exponentially.
Health commission director, Lui Yingzi said in a press briefing last week that Hubei province has about 50,000 testing kits in stock. That may not be enough, especially if you consider the deceiving nature of coronavirus.
Jonathan Yu, a Chinese doctor who is tasked with the job of diagnosis, said,
A patient may be found as negative for the first or second test, and then found to be positive the third time. It is like fishing in a pond: You did not catch a fish once, but that does not mean the pond does not have fish.”