WHO urges South Asian rivals and Indone­sia to increa­se testin­g ratio to 10 tests for each positi­ve diagno­sisLow testing rates in Pakistan, India and Indonesia risk leaving the authorities blindfolded about the extent of coronavirus transmission in their countries, the World Health Organisation warned on Friday. Pakistan had only tested 68 people out of one million while the situation was even worse in India and Indonesia with 33 and 26 respectively. “Without testing, it’s like moving blindfolded,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of WHO, said during the daily briefing on coronavirus. Pakistan’s first COVID-19 patient donates plasma for new therapyIf extensive testing is done, typically 3%-12% cases are positive, according to WHO. It also has the highest mortality rate at 8.9% of positive cases compared with less than 3% for the rest of the countries.

Source: The Express Tribune April 03, 2020 17:03 UTC