India continues to be leader in many areas of research and development, in many walks of life, However it is time to think how good we are at improving the potentials of laboratory medicine? I wish as a Medical Microbiologist we certainly to reinvent and question ourselves how good we at diagnostic/medical microbiology and control of Infectious disease with the backup of the laboratory medicine, Covid-19 has shatter the system we live and work as the disease will continue to spread faster unlike many viral Infections as Innovation and scale up to tests must be accelerated for deployment in all countries.

It has proved worth investing for low- and middle-income countries, this investment would contribute to saving many million lives, and strengthen health systems to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic. Allocating greater resources towards translating science into commercial products, which is…