Quote Originally Posted by christianpfc View Post
You can even modify the procedure and use mathematics to calculate which one tested positive (without testing those 10 individually), but under the given circumstances the way you describes is more economical.
I presume to calculate which one was positive, they need to take more than one swab per person, then feed these to different test batches ?

Combining tests was discussed in the UK last year, when there was a shortage of test capacity. I have no idea if they actually tried it for a while.