Germany Sets COVID-19 Testing Record And Prepares For Future Outbreaks

Having rapidly built a large-capacity COVID-19 testing strategy, Germany’s health system leaders are developing the capabilities to avert future outbreaks.

A mature Caucasian man in a clinical setting being swabbed by a healthcare worker in protective garb to determine if he has contracted the coronavirus or COVID-19.

German COVID-19 testing activity was up again last week, reaching a record 364,716 tests undertaken, 11% more than in the week before. 128 German labs are now contributing data about their SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing. Almost 75,000 antibody tests were performed in the past week.

National COVID-19 testing capacity stands at 845.000 SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests per week, much of which the ALM lab medicine association...

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