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The World Health Organization is urging governments to perform more tests for COVID-19 following concerns about underreporting of cases in many countries around the globe. As the number of confirmed deaths due to infections with SARS-CoV-2 passed 8,000 this week, more and more nations have introduced strict measures to attempt to delay the virus’s spread, but the organization warns that assessing the impact of these measures will only be possible with accurate data on the disease.
The message to every government and health authority on the planet right now is “get the capacity, and test, test, test,” Margaret Harris of the WHO coronavirus response team tells Sky News. “If you don’t know you’ve got a fire, you can’t put it out.”
Some countries have been taking a proactive approach to testing. South Korea, which has a population of more than 51 million people, rapidly implemented the ...
