Covid-19 testing per capita in Pakistan Higher than Indonesia, India, Bangladesh and Mexico

[Areesh]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1251408131558723584

 

[UKBengali]

BD is going up the fastest if you look at the last two weeks.

 

[Nilgiri]

Token BD moron has arrived and proceeds to tell you about its low base effect as usual. We increased from 1 to 10...900% growth achieved!

 

[Chhatrapati]

Testing Per capita is a useless indicator. The best way is to quantify the testing is to find the number of cases that turned positive to the number of tests done. If India were to test at the level of countries like US, we would have to do more than 10 million tests.

 

[Nilgiri]

Testing Per capita is a useless indicator. The best way is to quantify the testing is to find the number of cases that turned positive to the number of tests done. If India were to test at the level of countries like US, we would have to do more than 10 million tests.

Most people have no idea about the different strategies regd contact tracing that ICMR has formulated (and requisite 100% sampling base for that if pneumonia, SARI or similar symptomatic death)...compared to say saturation testing with countries that have established community spread and thus need a whole different strategy to India's.

 

[mig25]

There is no doubt here. India has not been testing enough. However, we have many medical research institutions like Biocon and others that are testing at random places with a testing sample of 700 people to determine the extent of community spread.
This is not enough.

 

[UKBengali]

Below is how BD will rapidly increase it's current daily tests from 2200 a day - higher per capita than India right now.

Main points are:

1. 11 new institutions to launch tests
2. Private hospitals to launch tests
2. Private institutions to launch tests

https://www.dhakatribune.com/health...ans-multi-sector-initiative-to-expand-testing

Coronavirus: Bangladesh plans multi-sector initiative to expand testing
Syed Samiul Basher Anik

• Published at 12:15 pm April 15th, 2020

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PCR laboratories of private hospitals, universities will be used for Covid-19 testing

Getting tested for coronavirus in Bangladesh has not been an easy task for many suspected cases, as the health authorities kept it quite limited since the first cases were reported on March 8.

Gradually, only 17 institutions were allowed for coronavirus testing since March 8.

But, amid much criticism from different quarters, the health authorities finally decided to go for a multi-sector-approach to add new institutions for Covid-19 testing, allowing some private hospitals to conduct tests for the virus.

It will also use Polymerase Chain Reaction [PCR] testing labs under different universities and ministries of agriculture and livestock, to enhance testing facilities.

Currently, nine labs in Dhaka and eight labs in different districts are conducting Covid-19 tests for suspected cases.

11 new institutions to launch tests

The government has decided to introduce coronavirus testing facilities at 11 hospitals to get more test results.

Among the hospitals, five will be in Dhaka and six in other districts, Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general [admin] of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said.

The hospitals include Kurmitola General Hospital, Sir Salimullah Medical College (Mitford Hospital), Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College, Mugda Medical College, and Sheikh Russell Gastroliver Institute in Dhaka.

The other six facilities outside Dhaka are at Chittagong Medical College, Comilla Medical College, Faridpur Medical College, Kushtia Medical College, M Abdur Rahim Medical College in Dinajpur, and Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College in Bogra.

“Sample testing will begin at these 11 institutions within a few days,” said Nasima.

Private hospitals to be allowed also

The government has also decided to include some private hospitals and institutions to use their PCR machines for the coronavirus testing.

“Based on certain conditions, private hospitals and institutions having PCR laboratories will be brought under the testing mechanism,” Nasima said.



The DGHS has requested the interested institutions with PCR lab facilities to contact this number 01313791149.

Neighbouring countries India and Pakistan have already brought private hospitals into their national response plans in anticipation of the threat of community transmission, while Bangladesh is lagging behind.

Bangladesh Private Medical College Association (BPMCA) has long been urging the government to allow a fixed number of private hospitals having capacity to conduct Covid-19 tests to enhance the testing capacity.

“Aimed at gradually increasing the number of testing labs, the government also decided to use PCR labs under different universities and under the ministries of agriculture and livestock,” Nasima further added.

Where can you test for Covid-19 at the moment?

Free tests for the detection of Covid-19 infection are now being conducted in 17 labs, according to officials at the DGHS.

In Dhaka, tests can be done at the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), National Polio, Measles and Rubella Laboratory in Institute of Public Health (NPML-IPH), Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Child Health Research Foundation under Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka Medical College, Institute for Developing Science and Health Initiatives [non-profitable], National Institute of Laboratory Medicine and Referral Centre (NILMRC), and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b).

The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) is conducting tests for the members of armed forces.

Outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases in Chittagong, Khulna Medical College, Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College, Mymensingh Medical College, Rajshahi Medical College, Rangpur Medical College, Sher-e-Bangla Medical College in Barisal, and Cox's Bazar Medical College are conducting tests for Covid-19.

Covid-19 at a glance

The coronavirus first broke out in China’s Wuhan in December last year. The Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new strain of coronavirus named Sars-CoV-2, since then has quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.

The health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first Covid-19 cases on March 8.

As of Tuesday, 1,012 people had tested positive for the extremely contagious disease in the country, including 46 who have died.

 

[Nilgiri]

Illiterate talking "per capita stronk in BD" now.

Still can't do basic math:

https://www.indiatoday.in/news-anal...how-much-testing-is-enough-1667940-2020-04-17

India is aiming to increase the daily testing of samples for coronavirus to 1 lakh from the current (at last count) around 30,000 tests in 24 hours. So, the testing numbers are set to improve now. But for that the labs have to work double shifts.

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But then again one only needs to see the scale of medical refugees that come to India each year for the most basic of treatments from "low base but all is fine BBS-BAL-BCL-land". It would be funny if it weren't so sad how pitiful the state of health sector is in that "country".

 

[terry5]

BD is going up the fastest if you look at the last two weeks.

hope InshaAllah everyone get clear from this wicked pandemic and Bangladesh don’t suffer .

Terrible no cure yet .

 

[UKBengali]

hope InshaAllah everyone get clear from this wicked pandemic and Bangladesh don’t suffer .

Terrible no cure yet .

Well UK is currently testing a vaccine that the scientists say has a 80% chance of being effective and ready for mass production by September this year.

So far S Asia is not showing the rapid growth that we have seen in Western Europe and USA and so there is signs of optimism there.

 

[dBSPL]

Only the total number of tests is not enough data to measure the course of countries' control over disease. We must base the Case / Test ratio.

On the other hand, if we examine successful countries such as Korea and Japan in the fight against epidemic; we see very successful filiation* applications. Countries with past epidemic disease experience; they managed to isolate infected/asymptomatic people more effectively and quickly, together with experienced fillation teams.

I cannot closely monitor the countries discussed here in the fight against Covid / Wuhan virus. but if I give examples from my own country, Turkey finally succeeded lowering the Case / Testing rate below 10% after 1 month thanks to the works of this.

*Filiation is the process of determining from where a person contracted an infectious disease. In other words, it is the search for the source. Through these efforts, important information can be obtained, including on whether there are continued risks or whether other people are also vulnerable.

 

[Pakistani Fighter]

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I am sorry @Areesh but India is ramping up the tests. They conducted about 35k tests in a day. Their positive cases percentage is lesser than us

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Testing Per capita is a useless indicator. The best way is to quantify the testing is to find the number of cases that turned positive to the number of tests done. If India were to test at the level of countries like US, we would have to do more than 10 million tests.

The rest is 10%. 10% of those tested were positive.

I am sorry @Areesh but India is ramping up the tests. They conducted about 35k tests in a day. Their positive cases percentage is lesser than us

What matters is per capita testing.

35K tests for a country of 1.2-3 billion is nothing.

 

[Pakistani Fighter]

What matters is per capita testing.

35K tests for a country of 1.2-3 billion is nothing.

Initially their testing were low but in 3-4 days they are increasing the number of tests

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Initially their testing were low but in 3-4 days they are increasing the number of tests

So are we, but its not a competition.

I hope this doesn’t spread anywhere.