When we are comparing testing capability, we need to also look at the countries in our region, specifically those that have similar ground realities. Our testing is low, but it's not because of some conspiracy to show low numbers. There are several components that go into

testing that determine the capacity. You can have millions of kits but if you don't have enough machines, or human resource, they are useless. These capacities cannot be built by a magic wand. They require sustained investments into the health systems that can provide baseline

capacity when a crisis hits. That has not happened in our history and no one party is responsible for it. When people throw around examples of Germany, S. Korea, USA, China in testing, they conveniently miss the fact that all these countries have leading companies who can

manufacturing the whole testing chain ingenuously. Even with years of sustained investment and indigenous capacity, they struggled to ramp up testing initially. Unfortunately, neither did we build this capacity of indigenous manufacturing, neither did we invest in building

a public health infrastructure that could help us in ramping up the capacity just by importing kits. It would truly be an achievement if we can take our capacity to 25k/day as Asad Umar announced in his PC. I hope this helps people understand why is testing constrained.