US Vice President Pence announced that their government will be issuing one million test kits for COVID-19 within the next week. Pence says two big pharmaceutical firms had cooperated with the US government in producing these test kits. It is not clear though if these test kits ARE TO BE GIVEN INIDIVIDUALLY or how many persons per kit.

Sources say cases of patients with the COVID-19 virus is rising, with the US now third with the most number of persons with the virus and a country with the most number of deaths due to the virus.

The new corona virus sprang when a Chinese doctor reported seeing a new strain of the common corona virus in a biological sample from one of about several Chinese sick people in a hospital in Nwbeil