Yes, that's capacity. Then there are how many tests - say 30 out of your 50 BUT then you have to analyze and inform the person.
Our local news report tonight interviewed a person who's brother had died of Covid a week or so ago. This person had had a test and is still waiting for the results 10 days later.
So bottle necks and problems all the way
Note that some people are tested more than once so number of tests does not equal number of people tested*
*update - latest figs given today - 69,463 tests carried out or posted to recipients. With some doubles, those tests were provided to a total of 57,006 people.
That is the problem with a lot of stats. the devil is in the detail.
Virus test results are only for the moment the test is taken, the person could be clear when the test is done and be coughed on walking out of the room and become infected. Health service workers should really be tested on a regular frequency and even then could be a source of infection between tests, but how many times could we expect a health service worker to be tested unless they were worried themselves?
There is a difference between hospital tests and testing station tests which take longer to be analysed.
The tests themselves are not 100% accurate etc., etc.
It is very similar to the graphs shown of deaths in various countries, each country counts deaths by covid-19 in different ways, the graphs compare countries with different populations and different population densities with no differential between them.
The press chase stories of PPE supply failings but don't take into account boxes labeled as gowns but when opened contain gloves or aprons etc. Neither do they take into account each batch has to be checked they pass safety standards before being issued to hospitals.
Even in normal times similar "errors" occur, but at least they are being caught before supply.
Cheers
Guy