Nelu Tataru, the Minister of Health, announced that the testing capacity for the new Coronavirus will be increased, so that more than 30.000 tests can be processed daily, much more than the current capacity of the laboratories where the tests are processed in our country from Monday of days.
Nelu Tataru says that an increase of over 20% could be made from 28.000 tests now, and this would certainly help to detect more cases of infected people, and from here outbreaks could be isolated more quickly, and it could reduce the spread throughout the country, which would be excellent.
"We currently have 142 test points and around 28.000 tests per day. At maximum capacity, we can go towards 35.000 tests per day. Let's remember that we started from a single test point, from 200 tests per day. At this time, we collect those results that can come in 24, 48 or 72 hours.
That is why the reports that are made are in cases confirmed positive on that day and then we also have that number of new cases reported on that day, as well as that index that we calculate and then you will understand why we leave those 48 hours at the local level to impose restrictions."
