Trump Says Testing Will Expand, Pressures States to Ease Lockdowns

President Trump said his administration planned to grow testing for the new coronavirus and brought force to loosen statewide limitations, as Asian nations around the world grappled with a resurgence of bacterial infections from a virus that has claimed extra than 154,000 lives earth-wide.

Mr. Trump said Friday the government was sending five.five million testing swabs to states in the coming weeks immediately after governors, enterprise executives and lawmakers called on him to grow testing before he urges a loosening of keep-at-residence orders, vacation limitations…