> Another poster mentioned the decentralised nature of the German system, that has been mentioned as one of the reasons why Germany was able to test so much.*
Seems to be, but that makes Austria's excuses look a bit poor. Here they have a similar decentralised system, but they're claiming that they don't get enough test kits on the market and that's why they're now testing 3k-5k a day despite having lab capacities >15k/day. If Germany can get them, Austria can, too - money shouldn't be an issue.
It's over 400k total as of March 23rd and 100k in the week of 20th. https://www.zeit.de/wissen/gesundheit/2020-03/coronatests-de...
> Another poster mentioned the decentralised nature of the German system, that has been mentioned as one of the reasons why Germany was able to test so much.*
Seems to be, but that makes Austria's excuses look a bit poor. Here they have a similar decentralised system, but they're claiming that they don't get enough test kits on the market and that's why they're now testing 3k-5k a day despite having lab capacities >15k/day. If Germany can get them, Austria can, too - money shouldn't be an issue.