As Japan reopens, coronavirus testing slowed by bureaucracy and staff shortages by juminism Kiyoshi Takenaka
FILE PHOTO: A medical worker conducts a simulation for drive-through polymerase chain reaction tests for the coronavirus disease at Edogawa ward in Tokyo, Japan April 22, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo
In more than a dozen interviews with Reuters, public health officials, doctors and experts warned Japan’s slow scaling up of tests could mask the scale of infections and make its population vulnerable to future outbreaks. Omi’s panel of experts has called on the government to speed up testing, including of people with mild symptoms.
Japan says it can run up to 22,000 PCR tests a day, but less than a third - around 6,000 tests - are actually conducted on a daily basis. About 75% of tests have been processed through public health centres and government institutions, according to the health ministry. Shinya Yamanaka, a Nobel Prize-winning stem cell biologist at Kyoto University, has offered his lab to boost testing capacity.
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