Optimized Pool Testing for COVID - 19 with focus on the Indian Demographic

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has gripped the entire globe in a span of less than half a year claiming a recorded 200,000 lives [1] till date. All the countries are going for rapid testing aiming to hopefully contain all the carriers before it takes the form of an epidemic, or what the populous calls Stage-4. The current method of testing used by the governments has been compared to the method proposed. Towards the end, some figures have been calculated to show the actual capital saved by using the proposed method.