  Rapid testing of appropriate specimens from patients suspected for a disease
during an epidemic, such as the current Coronavirus outbreak, is of a great
importance for the disease management and control. We propose a method to
enhance processing large amounts of collected samples. The method is based on
mixing samples in testing tubes in a specific configuration, as opposed to
testing single samples in each tube, and accounting for natural virus amounts
in infected patients from variation of positiveness in test tubes. To
illustrate the efficiency of the suggested method we carry out numerical tests
for actual scenarios under various tests. Applying the proposed method enhances
the number of tests by order of magnitudes, where all positives are identified
with no false negatives, and the effective testing time can be reduced
drastically even when the uncertainty in the test is relatively high.
