[VladimirGolovin]

>> Roche's best machines, for example, can process 4,100 RT-PCR tests in a fully automated fashion

What's this number? Tests conducted per day? The number of DNA patterns known to the analyzer?

[dakrisht]

Roche’s Cobas 8800 can do roughly ~4100 tests per day and this is a massive full-room setup.

Many other RT-PCR capable machines exist out there (800 is the total number in Europe cumulative) but this assumes an efficient point-of test > courier > lab > results process which many countries simply lack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22575661