The test in the lab actually only takes a couple of hours. Most labs are currently struggling with a backlog. The test is a simple polymerase chain reaction (P

The test in the lab actually only takes a couple of hours. Most labs are currently struggling with a backlog. The test is a simple polymerase chain reaction (PCR), however, the number of PCRs that some labs have to perform has increased by an order of magnitude. The utilization of the required machines and the number of qualified lab scientists are now bottlenecks. This is why tests results often take a couple of days now. We should see faster lab results in the coming weeks as labs are equipped with more machines and staff is retrained. However, this is also of course dependent on the increase of tests.