Biden to boost funds for COVID-19 tests in schools, shelters: White House
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FILE PHOTO: A view of a vial of swabs collected from one classroom for surveillance pool testing, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in the classroom at South Boston Catholic Academy in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., January 28, 2021. REUTERS
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration plans to provide $650 million to expand COVID-19 testing for elementary and middle schools, as well as homeless shelters and other underserved congregate settings, the White House said in a statement on Wednesday.
It will also spend $815 million to increase U.S. manufacturing of testing supplies and $200 million for virus genome sequencing, the statement said.
(Reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Tim Ahmann)
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