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NYC to Begin Manufacturing COVID-19 Test Kits, PPE

Margaret Besheer

   NEW YORK - New York City will begin manufacturing its own coronavirus
   test kits, as well as some personal protection equipment, its mayor
   announced Tuesday.

   "For the first time, we are going to have a truly reliable, major
   supply of testing," Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters at City Hall.
   "A lot of folks would have said this was impossible, they are making it
   possible -- and that is what New Yorkers do."

   New York has been the hardest hit U.S. state by the coronavirus, with
   nearly 200,000 confirmed infections. More than half are in New York
   City. The statewide death toll'¯passed 10,000 this week, and thousands
   of people remain hospitalized with the respiratory virus.

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