Ramaswami: Telangana state’s testing strategy poses numerous questions on the containment of the novel coronavirus pandemic as the state has tested less than 19,000 samples, reporting a total of 1003 COVID-19 cases and 25 deaths till April 27. The testing rate is far lower than the neighbouring states. On Monday, although Telangana reported only two new COVID-19 positive cases, the state has reportedly tested some 159 samples. Whereas, on the same day, the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh tested 5783 samples and reported 82 new positive cases increasing its total number to 1259 positive cases and 31 deaths due to the virus.