Even as government expanded testing to test people with SARI or influenza like illness or severe pneumonia, apart from those with a travel history and their contacts, diagnostics is still not widely available Despite being roped in to scale up testing for the novel Coronavirus infection, private laboratories have been operating at a fraction of their overall capacity as symptomatic people eligible to undergo tests do not go for a test, and due to an acute shortage of testing kits, executives of three of India’s largest private chains said. “To be very honest, the eligible ones want to escape.
The normal ones, out of curiosity, want testing. So this is the unfortunate part," A. Velumani, chairman, managing director and chief executive