Some of the coronavirus testing kits sent to state laboratories around the country have flaws and do not work properly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday. The kits were meant to enable states to conduct their own testing and get results faster than they would by shipping samples to the C.D.C. But the failure of the kits means that states still have to depend on the C.D.C., which will mean several days’ delay in getting results. announced last week that it had begun shipping about 200 kits to laboratories in the United States and roughly 200 more to labs in other countries. Each kit can test about 700 to 800 specimens from patients, the agency said.

Source: International New York Times February 12, 2020 20:12 UTC