The Tennessee Department of Health announced Sunday that it has authorized testing for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus, seven days per week.
The testing is in response to growing concern about the virus and the illness it causes, the department said.
It wasn’t immediately clear how often the testing was authorized before.
As of Sunday, three coronavirus cases had been diagnosed in Tennessee. Two were in the Nashville area, and one was in Shelby County in west Tennessee.
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