Coronavirus: Beijing doubles testing capacity as Pepsi plant closes due to confirmed cases

Beijing has more than doubled it coronavirus testing capabilities to 1 million people a day, as the authorities pull out all the stops to contain the outbreak.All of the city’s 124 nucleic acid testing institutes are now fully operational and each is capable of processing 230,000 samples a day, up from 100,000 about a fortnight ago, the municipal health bureau said on Sunday.“If we do combined detection with five mixed samples at a time, we can test a million people a day,” spokesman Gao…

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