Coronavirus testing: how some countries got ahead of the rest
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Countries have approached coronavirus testing in different ways, and in some places there was far earlier recognition than in the UK of the need to develop tests and kits and to have sufficient numbers stockpiled. Here is how some countries got ahead of the curve.
China
With its experience of Sars at the start of the century and as the apparent source of origin of Covid-19, it
