India rely on imports for tests ....15 Jun 2020 19:02
Barnetpeter
Try doing some research before making yourself sound thick .... oops, too late !
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India’s plan to ramp up testing for the novel coronavirus has been hampered by its dependence on imports of both test kits and the regents needed to make the kits. This has slowed down large-scale domestic production of test kits, researchers and industry representatives say.
India’s Covid-19 cases tally on 13 May stands at 74,281 infections and 2415 deaths, since the country recorded its first Covid-19 case on 30 January. On the face of it, the number of cases look small in a country of 1.3 billion, when compared to the US or some European countries. But juxtaposed against this is its relatively low rates of testing – 1.3 per 1000 people as opposed to 22 per 1000 in the UK, 28 in the US and 13 in South Korea. Public health experts fear that community transmission has begun and is growing in India, and if an outbreak occurs in rural areas, the weak public health infrastructure there, where there is little testing capacity, will be overwhelmed.