Table 3.

Cost of the status quo from a subset of facilities that reported transporting viral loads in 2017

Parameter	Status quo 2017	Status quo in 2020a
Facilities reached	148	148
Total weekly viral load volumes	2635	8588
Total weekly kilometres driven	32,200	100,000
Number of full‐time equivalent vehicles used/requiredb	18	61
Number of full‐time equivalent motorbikes used/requiredb	8	21
Number of full‐time equivalent driversb	26	82
Efficiency (kilometres driven per viral load)	12.2	11.6
Transportation cost per viral load	$9.92 (SD $1.25)	$9.54 (SD $1.22)
Total annual cost	$1.36 m (SD $171,000)	$4.3 m (SD $547,000)

^aUsing currently available transport types and coordination only improved to reach high‐volume facilities daily and low‐volume facilities weekly. ^bMost vehicles/drivers are not full‐time given the infrequency of transport.