1) It was all about capacity. That target has been reached.
2) The average over the 3 days is still more than 100,000.
3) As the tests take hours to carry out, the results could appear in the next days figures.
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The country has the capacity to carry out up to 500,000 tests a week, but must increase that to more than a million, or 200,000 tests a day, they say.
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“The reagents we need are produced by just three manufacturers in Germany and they have run dry,” Elisabeth Koerber-Kröll from the district medical faculty in Schwäbisch Hall, in Baden-Württemberg, south-west Germany, one of the hardest hit regions told broadcaster SWR.
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The reference to 1m/week = 200,000/day, suggests no weekend testing.
This why Germany's figures are better.
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A nationwide network set up between doctors’ practices, normally used to monitor the flu, was also used for testing for Covid-19 from February onwards, and the fact the system only detected a case on 12 March indicates that the virus was not widespread before then..
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It was never widespread in the first place regardless of testing. It was more localised.
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Hard for some to drive many miles to these tests if they don't have a car or drive. That doesn't seem to have occurred to the muppets that run the country.
We'll soon have the most deaths in Europe, there is a reason why.
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when they were posted out to people's homes or satellite units.
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In spite of widespread availability of laboratory testing but due to the restrictive RKI testing criteria, Germans without specific symptoms could not be tested until late March. On 25 March 2020, the Robert Koch Institute announced that people no longer needed to come from risk areas to be tested, and prioritised loosened restrictions to test health care workers. RKI criticised that too many people without symptoms were tested. On 26 March, virologist Streeck said testing labs were at the limit of their capacity. The more a pandemic spreads, the harder it becomes to increase the number of tests due to overburdening of the healthcare system.
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