US president says increased tests lead to more cases being discovered, but White House official says comment made in jest and country still leads world in sampling

Jay Tischfield, head of the Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository, says his lab is ramping up capacity to analyze 50,000 spit samples a day

Matanyahu Englman will also focus on state financial support to citizens and COVID-19 testing; reportedly won't probe Netanyahu's conduct in leading pandemic response

The head of Maryland's largest skilled nursing center explains how the facility has changed its policies while dealing with the 'unknown unknowns' of the coronavirus outbreak

In some cases, increased testing appears to be cause for uptick in confirmed cases; others tied to lifting of stay-at-home orders

With government aiming to expand testing to prevent resurgence, clinics say they lack the manpower to meet the target rate

HMOs to perform an initial 70,000 antibody tests around country to help determine how many people were exposed to coronavirus

Sample of 1,700 serological tests suggests true tally over 10 times more than confirmed; infection rate for men more than double the rate for women

Official confirms start of program after weeks of delays; residents of hard-hit Bnei Brak to be tested next, before program expands to rest of the country

Pilot program to administer tests to residents of hard-hit Bnei Brak, then expand to rest of the country; thousand of kits expire in July, may go to waste