One can understand the status of infrastructure in the country for viral diseases by knowing the fact that the National Institute of Virology, Pune is the only centre in India where testing facility for Coronavirus is available. The samples of suspected patients are being sent to this centre from all over the country.
Playing down the fact, the health department authorities are claiming that samples of only those patients are sent to Pune which are kept in isolation on suspicion for the disease.
They point out that number of such people in the country is very less. However in the unfortunate scenario of spread of the disease in the country, the presence of only one testing facility raises genuine concern.