Saliva testing deal for Minnesota

Eliminating a testing bottleneck

Continues to lead the way in testing for the novel coronavirus.

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Tim walz announced minnesota is partnering with a distributor of saliva testing to create plans for a new lab in oakdale.

The lab will be capable of processing 30?

"* thousand samples per day ?

"* that will take the total statewide capacity to more than 50?

"* thousand tests each day.

"so the more diversity we have in our testing system, the more resilient we can be, less prone to having capacity constraints in some of our lab suppliers, really constrain our capacity to test in minnesota."

The lab will create up to 250 jobs at its teacher