Experts call for more coronavirus tests as positive rate rises

Medical experts are urging Japan to test more people for the novel coronavirus and provide their details to grasp the scale of infections in the country, after seeing a recent rise in the rate of people testing positive.Japan has so far conducted polymerase chain reaction tests on more than 130,000 people for the pneumonia-causing virus, a figure sharply lower than many other countries including South Korea, which had conducted more than 520,000 tests by April 14.While Japan chose to limit the number of tests at the outset of the outbreak to avoid straining its medical system, such an appro…READ FULL ARTICLE