An Indian doctor entered the billionaire club, benefiting from the crisis of the Coronavirus, which began spreading in his country several weeks ago.
The wealth of doctor Arvind Lal, who heads a chain of laboratories in his name, exceeded the barrier of a billion dollars last Wednesday thanks to an increase in the shares of the diagnostic chain listed in India, according to the "Forbes" magazine.
The Lal Chain, which generated revenues of $ 174 million in fiscal year 2019, is one of the largest diagnostic networks in India, with more than 200 clinical laboratories, 2,500 patient service centers and nearly 6,500 sampling centers.
According to the American "Forbes" magazine, Dr. Lal Bath Labs laboratories provide 5,000 medical and radiological examinations daily, which includes the new Corona tests "Covid-19", which obtained regulatory approval to do so since the last week of last March, the same The time when India imposed a nationwide ban on the emerging epidemic of Coruna.
Covid-19 examinations before were only conducted by government laboratories and hospitals, but with the increase in the number of positive cases, the Indian government has resorted to private laboratories as well.
As of Thursday, the incidence of newborn corona in India was more than 52,000, while the deaths exceeded more than 1,700 people.