In an interview with the media a few days ago, WHO Chief Scientist Sumia Swaminathan pointed out that due to the limited domestic nucleic acid testing capacity in India, the situation of India’s epidemic situation may be seriously underestimated, and the actual number of infections in India may be 20 of the currently announced number. To 30 times.

According to the scientist, the number of people infected with new coronary pneumonia in India may have reached between 350 million and 530 million.

The scientist believes that although India has been improving nucleic acid detection capabilities in recent times, there are still many omissions, and the actual situation is far worse than reported.

(Producing Li Jiali)

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