White House announces plans to ramp up COVID testing

February 17, 2021

Officials said the US is now vaccinating 1.7 million Americans per day, up from less than one million last month.

The White House announced new efforts on Wednesday to expand and improve testing for the coronavirus, as the United States ramps up efforts to vaccinate Americans.

In a news briefing, Carole Johnson, the nation’s new COVID-19 testing coordinator, announced that the federal government would invest $1.6bn to increase nationwide testing.

Original article from Al Jazeera