In Japan, convenience is king and getting tested for COVID-19 can be highly inconvenient. Part of a solution, as it is for a range of daily necessities in Tokyo, has become the humble vending machine, reports Reuters.
High chance of infectionsEager to conserve manpower and hospital resources, the government conducts just 40,000 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests a day, a quarter of its capacity, restricting them to people who are quite symptomatic or have had a high chance of being infected.
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