Georgia’s top public health official says the state’s ability to test for coronavirus is about to double.
The state can currently test 50 patients a day for COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. By the end of next week, the hope to be able to test 100 a day.
“We got additional shipments of materials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to allow us to do this testing,” said Dr. Kathleen Toomey, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health as a press conference Thursday.
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