State passes 7 million COVID tests, but even as testing slows, the number of variant ...
(World News UK)

Julyssa Colon, a nurse with Optimus Health Care, adjusts her PPE before administering a test for COVID-19 at a mobile test site set up by Optimus Health Care in the parking lot of the Russell Temple Church in Bridgeport, June 30, 2020. The state quietly passed a milestone this week, recording its 7 millionth COVID-19 test, but even as the amount of testing has slowed down, laboratory data suggest that the number of cases that could be caused by the B.1.1.7 variant is rising sharply. The new data released late Thursday by Dr. Nathan Grubaugh, an associate professor of epidemiology at Yale’s School of Public Health, show there were at least 152 confirmed cases of the B.1.1.7 variant as...