City can perform 50,000 coronavirus tests daily, de Blasio says
New York City has reached its goal of performing 50,000 coronavirus tests a day, and its contact tracing effort has potentially prevented thousands of new infections, officials said Thursday.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said four new clinics operated by the urgent care company MedRite will bring the total citywide daily testing capacity to 50,000.
“This is the number we’ve been wanting to get to for quite a while. We will now have that capacity,” he said.