Cuomo: State will provide tests for nursing homes

Cuomo: State will provide tests for nursing homes

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Andrew Cuomo said the state is sending 320,000 test kits to nursing homes across New York in preparation to test staff twice per week.

Six deaths in oneida county over the weekend, linked to coronavirus.

Five of them.... were from nursing homes.

This is the first full week that nursing homes will be required to test staff members, twice a week, for covid.

The governor says the state, today, is sending 320 thousand test kits to nursing homes, across new york.

5:20 if you see an increase in the positive among staff people, it's an alert that you probably have a real problem in that nursing home 5:32 chances are, staff are getting it from the people in the nursing home or giving it to people in the nursing home.

If you watch what happens with the staff, it's a narin the coal mine for wt's ppening in thnursing he 5:47 the governor said no other state is requiring nursing homes test staff twice a week.

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