BOSTON (WHDH) - The federal government has granted two Massachusetts commercial labs approval to begin testing for coronavirus.
Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics will begin testing more people, increasing the capacity to test people from 200 tests per day to 400 by next week. The state currently has 5,000 tests.
Prior to the announcement, a state lab in Jamaica Plain was conducting all of the coronavirus tests.
Gov. Charlie Baker said he continues to request new test kits to meet the demand.
“The Quest Lab in Westborough, they do a lot of tests. They do thousands of tests of one kind or another every day and my guess is that on an incremental basis they would dramatically expand our capacity,” Baker said.
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