Deficiencies feared in wholesale virus testing

A medical expert said today that he thinks the government's upcoming citywide coronavirus testing scheme will identify only one-third of those infected in the community, RTHK reports.
Doctor Leung Chi-chiu of the Medical Association, said patients in the incubation period will not be identified. At the same time, those who test positive may have already spread the virus to others, he said.
He added that he has some doubts about whether the program will be safe for both the participants and staff.
“We need to test, I think, the whole city within a short time, and we … only have for example 100 testing centers, it’s almost impossible, I think, to avoid people crowding together at some point,” said Leung.
“The other problem is about the testing procedure, because that will certainly lead to the citizens removing their masks temporarily and the collector [will] be exposed I think to possible [contamination risk] if the subject … sneezes or coughs during the process,” the doctor said.