Developing and deploying tests for SARS-CoV-2 is crucial

"WE HAVE A simple message to all countries." So said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) at a news conference held in Geneva on March 16th. "Test, test, test. All countries should be able to test all suspected cases, they cannot fight this pandemic blindfolded." Without adequate testing for SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that is now sweeping rapidly around the world, he said, there can be no isolation of cases and the chain of infection will not be brok...