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Coronavirus: US pledges more testing as Trump hints at aid for workers

Officials say 4m tests will be made available each week but decline to estimate how many Americans have been tested thus far

Warning that the number of coronavirus cases in the United States was expected to grow, the Trump administration on Monday said that testing for the virus would ramp up quickly in the coming weeks while declining to estimate how many Americans had already been tested for the virus.

The evening news conference at the White House came as the stock market plunged and an increasing number of Americans wondered how the official count of virus cases in the country, still in the mid-three-figures, could remain so low despite the aggressive spread of coronavirus elsewhere.

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Source: US Politics - theguardian.com


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