India Could Be Next Virus Hotspot with an ‘Avalanche’ of Cases

Re:India Could Be Next Virus Hotspot with an ‘Avalanche’ of ... by mcsb4 on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @02:38PM (#22608476)

As the article states, India is currently doing 500 tests per day. Germany is doing 160.000 tests per day.

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Re:India Could Be Next Virus Hotspot with an ‘Avalanche’ of ... by pmlnr on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:47PM (#22609467)

160k a day? No way. Citation needed. So far total tests in UK are ~30k.

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Re:India Could Be Next Virus Hotspot with an ‘Avalanche’ of ... by mcsb4 on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @04:03PM (#22609661)

I can't find the source anymore, but the latest Roche AG systems are capable of doing 4000 tests per day. The last generation was 1000 tests per day. Germany also is doubling the capacity of intensive care beds from 28000 to 56000. There is enough money for the machines. Also look at the ratio of infected to dead: 7000->20, while Italy 30000->2000. Just more tests.

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Re:India Could Be Next Virus Hotspot with an ‘Avalanche’ of ... by vytis on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:33PM (#22609265)

Any references for the German number?

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Re:India Could Be Next Virus Hotspot with an ‘Avalanche’ of ... by mcsb4 on Friday March 20, 2020 @07:25AM (#22636680)

I have to correct the number to 160.000 per week thus 23.000 per day.

Source: https://www.zeit.de/amp/news/2020-03/18/corona-test-erforder...

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