New York: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said that any person with COVID-19 symptoms was now eligible for a test, as the city was trying to reach its daily goal of testing 20,000 people.
In addition, contacts of COVID-19 patients and workers in gathering places, such as homeless shelters and detention centres, can receive the test, Xinhua news agency quoted the Mayor as saying at his daily press briefing on Thursday.
“Lack of widespread testing was our Achilles’ heel from day one,” de Blasio said, adding: “We’re still playing catch-up, and unfortunately that’s because the help we needed from the federal government never was there in the beginning, still isn’t here, but we do not let that stop us.”
More medical workers and personal protective equipment can be spared from hospitals to testing sites, said the Myor, expressing his confidence in achieving the daily goal of testing 20,000 people by May 25, when 12 additional testing sites will be added across all five boroughs. (IANS)
