Numbers vary by county as NY surpasses 27M COVID tests | The Daily Gazette
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ALBANY — While vaccines may be the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel in the COVID-19 pandemic, testing remains critical to controlling the virus while we’re still in that tunnel.
Hundreds of thousands of tests are now being administered each week across New York, with the dual benefit of telling individuals if they’re infected and showing public health officials where the virus is most active.
The statewide cumulative test total since March 1 surpassed 27 million late last week.
State health officials are now seeking to expand one of the busiest testing regimes in the nation even further as they deal with a post-holiday onslaught of new infections and the arrival here of a more highly contagious variant of the virus.