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BY ALEJANDRA
O’CONNELL-DOMENECH
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced
Tuesday that New York City will
start creating its own coronavirus
testing kits.
Beginning in early May, New
York City-based manufacturers,
laboratories and 3D printers will
produce 50,000 coronavirus test
kits a week.
“We said, well if people can
make them around the world why
not us?” said Mayor Bill de Blasio
during his daily coronavirus briefing.
The city recently received
news that components to 50,000
test kits would be donated to New
York City from Aria Diagnostics in
Carmel, Indiana.
During his April 14 briefing,
the mayor said that an additional
50,000 test kits per week will be
sent from Aria to New York city
every week, beginning April 20,
bringing the total number of available
tests in the city to 400,000 a
month.
Recently, the mayor touted progress
on the battle against the novel
coronavirus as the number of cases
continues to fall. The Department
of Health and Mental Hygiene reported
that there are 106,813 cases
of the novel coronavirus in the city
as of 9:30 a.m. April 14.
In order to ensure that the number
of cases continues to decline,
de Blasio emphasized the importance
of testing in order to appropriately
quarantine people.
The mayor emphasized that although
the soon to be available
tests were good news, the city
would not “let its foot off the gas.”
New York City would keep social
distancing and shelter in place
strategies active in order push the
number of new novel coronavirus
patients further down.
As capacity in city hospitals
opens up medical personnel will
be freed to help more with testing
New Yorkers, de Blasio added.
This story first appeared on
amNY.com
Mayor Bill de Blasio holds a media availability
on COVID-19. City Hall. Saturday, April 11,
2020.
NYC and industries
to crank out 50K
COVID-19 tests weekly
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