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NEW YORK – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has finally given the green light to New York state‘s 28 public and private labs to begin manual, semi-automated, and automated testing for the novel coronavirus, the governor announced Friday.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said his administration has been asking the FDA for clearance for several weeks and blamed the federal government for creating a nationwide “testing bottleneck” with their slow response.
“New York State has 28 laboratories that can start testing immediately, and these new approvals will allow the state to dramatically increase testing capacity and get it to where it needs to be to find the positive cases, isolate those individuals and more quickly stop the spread,” Cuomo said. “We’re dealing with the virus, but we’re also dealing with the fear and anxiety New Yorkers are facing, and we’re taking new actions every day as this situation evolves to address both.”
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