India’s Covid-19 testing is falling short – again. How big is the problem? Not only is the country undercounting infections, inadequate testing is also making predictions of future trajectories difficult. May 11, 2021 · 06:30 am A medical worker takes a swab sample of a child for a Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test for the Covid-19 coronavirus screening at a testing centre in Hyderabad on April 29, 2021. | Noah Seelam / AFP In the spring of 2020 when Covid-19 first hit India, one of the first things independent experts red flagged about the country’s response was inadequate testing. Over the next few months, every aspect of the country’s testing regime was dissected by the media, from the availability of test kits to the pricing of tests.