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Walz stands by goal of 40,000 coronavirus tests per month

by Associated Press
| April 16, 2020 12:03 AM

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The growing capacity of the Mayo Clinic and University of Minnesota to provide a new type of COVID-19 testing provides a reason to believe that the state will soon be able to test up to 40,000 people per month for whether they've had the disease, Gov. Tim Walz and state health department officials said Wednesday.

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