Peter Gaynor, FEMA's administrator, told CNN that the administration is using the Defense Production Act to acquire some 60,000 test kits.
Medical take a patient's coronavirus test during a trial run for a new FEMA drive-thru coronavirus testing clinic at CVS at 720 Boston Turnpike in Shrewsbury, MA on March 19, 2020.The Trump administration plans to use the Defense Production Act for the first time during this coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday to procure thousands of COVID-19 test kits as the disease continues its spread across the country.
Peter Gaynor, the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator, told CNN that the administration had decided to use the Defense Production Act to acquire some 60,000 kits. The FEMA chief added that the White House will add "DPA language" into its mass contract for 500 million masks. "We're actually going to use the DPA for the first time today. There are some test kits we need to get our hands on," he told CNN. "And the second thing we're going to do is we're going to insert some language into these mass contracts that we have."
"So we're going to use it. We're going to use it when we need it. And we're going to use it today," Gaynor said.for exclusive insights and analysis, and live business day programming from around the world.
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