COVID-19: Testing Our Way Out of COVID-19

Testing has been a key topic of discussion for last few weeks with questions on sufficiency of India’s testing protocol, overall rate of testing, debates on effectiveness of different testing methods and availability of test kits/ capacity.

These questions become more important under the context that the fight for COVID-19 is going to be a long one, and testing is perhaps the most important tool to understand the true spread and the nature of disease. In this publication, we have tried to put the most relevant facts around testing together.