[makomk]

The person described in that Vox article - upper respiratory symptoms, no direct contact with someone with confirmed Covid-19 - wouldn't meet the criteria for testing anywhere that I know of off-hand. Certainly not in the UK or Australia, probably not in South Korea (though they allow people who don't qualify to buy testing out of pocket), not in a whole bunch of EU states, and Italy has much bigger things to worry about. Maybe in the more urban parts of China?

[agency]

You can't have contact with someone with a confirmed case of Covid-19 if nobody is being tested for Covid-19.

[sovnade]

The community spread by this point has hit the entire US surely. They can't track every single confirmed person location-by-location because it's been far too long.

[paulmd]

That's some COVID, that COVID-22.

[willyt]

You are wrong about South Korea. Their testing has been incredibly effective from the beginning, patient 31 in South Korea had no known contact and was told to take a CV test by her doctors, but didn't take the advice until a 2 days later. https://graphics.reuters.com/CHINA-HEALTH-SOUTHKOREA-CLUSTER...

[makomk]

Patient 31 was told to take a test despite not meeting the criteria because her doctors had a hunch, as I understand it.

[xtracto]

In my country, you get tested even if you haven't had direct contact with confirmed COVID19, but have the symptoms and have travelled to selected countries or states in the last 4 weeks.