TOKYO -- Japan's largest diagnostic companies will step up to help the country in its lagging coronavirus testing effort by tripling their combined capacity to roughly 10,000 daily before summer's end.
Fears of second pandemic wave spur efforts to fill gap

Japan lags other advanced nations in the coronavirus testing rates. (Photo by Rie Ishii)
TOKYO -- Japan's largest diagnostic companies will step up to help the country in its lagging coronavirus testing effort by tripling their combined capacity to roughly 10,000 daily before summer's end.