The W.H.O advised every nation to test, test and test their citizens for coronavirus. Having listened to the state governor's speeches and the president's speech, nothing was really said about this. They were all quick to close their respective state's borders without any palliatives for the citizens. I feel they all want to appear to us like they are working without any coordination. I could be wrong but what is your take on this?

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The novel corona virus as the name implies is an evolved mutant of the original virus. Advance countries are still struggling to develop (not to talk of production) test kits.

China, our best bet of importing the kits from is just gradually getting back up, and when it does it will be inundated with backlogs of orders from countries all over the world.

Our current lab test method is the most thorough test available but not the most efficient. For a test at WHO recommended scale for about 200million people we need portable test kits