New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority ridership is down 90% since pre-pandemic levels, the group’s chairman and CEO Pat Foye announced. Foye, who tested positive for coronavirus last weekend, said 582 of his colleagues have also tested positive.
From CNN's Jason Hoffman and Maegan Vazquez
“We're doing more than anyone in the world, by far. We are testing highly accurate tests, these are tests that work,” Trump said. “Well we’re doing, every day, and the word is exponential we are getting more and more and more, and now we have a new test that will be rolled out tomorrow or the next day and that’s going to take only a few minutes to see the result. And it's a highly accurate result.
Pence said under the old testing system, tests were being sent out, but had to be returned to labs that could only tests a small number per day.
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