Despite public health authorities’ often draconian measures and isolation tactics, many were caught flat-footed in validating, implementing and distributing SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic tests and in establishing decentralized point-of-care (POC) testing. Now that picture is starting to change, with the first shipments of such tests (Table 1). …. To stop the virus spreading, however, will take a massive effort to scale up the production of easy-to-use POC tests and then to deploy them widely.

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41587-020-00010-2