A private laboratory in New York soon will be able to perform 5,000 tests a day of the novel coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said
Test kits have been one of the main ways to determine if a patient has coronavirus, but results from throat-swab tests can be inaccurate. WSJ visited a lab in Singapore to see how the kits work and find out why there are questions over accuracy. Photo: Crystal Tai Friday.
The new testing capacity by the laboratory, BioReference, would be five times the state’s target at the beginning of the outbreak in New York, Mr. Cuomo said.
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