Poland’s daily processing capacity is up to 4k coronavirus tests
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Poland’s processing capacity is 3,500-4,000 tests for coronavirus daily, said Michał Dworczyk, the head of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland (KPRM), about the possibilities that Poland has in conducting genetic tests for SARS-CoV-2. He emphasized that this number is adequate to the stage of the epidemic in Poland.
“We have enough tests and we buy them all the time. If today we wanted to do more than 4,000 tests a day, there would be a problem with the number of institutions that could carry them out. However, the number of these facilities is increasing every day,” he told TVN24, a Polish private broadcaster.
In comparison, America increased its daily testing capacity from less than 8,000 on March 2 to 36,810 on March 16 and is expected to reach 100,000 by March 27, according to American Enterprise Institute’s estimates. The UK recently announced it would increase testing from 1,500 daily to 10,000. Meanwhile, even before March 11, South Korea had conducted as many as 10,000-new tests each day, reported FT, a London-based daily.
(TVN24, The Atlantic, VOX, Financial Times, PAP)
