{"id":24818,"date":"2020-09-30T05:49:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T05:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=24818"},"modified":"2020-09-30T05:49:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T05:49:41","slug":"u-s-government-to-ship-millions-of-rapid-covid-tests-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=24818","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Government to Ship Millions of Rapid COVID Tests This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"News_list_rdr art\">\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<h3>Latest Prevention &amp; Wellness News<\/h3>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>TUESDAY, Sept. 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; The U.S. government will start distributing millions of rapid coronavirus tests to states this week with the goal of reopening schools.<\/p>\n<p>About 6.5 million tests will be shipped this week, and a total of 100 million tests will be sent out over the next several weeks, a senior official told the <i>Associated Press<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Tests will be distributed based on state populations and governors can use them as they see fit, but the federal government is pushing for the tests to be used to reopen schools.<\/p>\n<p>The move to greatly increase testing comes as the U.S. has more than 40,000 confirmed new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/wuhan_coronavirus_outbreak_2019-ncov\/article.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"slide\">COVID-19<\/a> cases a day and experts say there&#8217;s likely to be a surge of infections in the coming months, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"credits\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MedicalNews\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images.medicinenet.com\/images\/HealthDay\/healthday.png\" style=\"border: none;\"\/><br \/>Copyright \u00a9 2019 HealthDay. 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