A shortage in testing has left sick people and health care workers around the US without answers. The New York City Health Department has directed doctors only to order tests for patients in need of hospitalisation. Even health care workers, at high risk of contracting the virus and transmitting it, have struggled to get tested. (Another Florida politician, Mayor Francis Suarez of Miami, has also tested positive.) A health care worker holds up a message at a drive-through testing centre for the coronavirus in New Rochelle, NY, on Monday, Mar 16, 2020.

Source: bd News24 March 19, 2020 08:15 UTC