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A shortage of coronavirus testing kits is complicating efforts by California health officials to monitor a potential outbreak of the disease at nursing home where an elderly woman died from the infectious disease this week, authorities said on Wednesday.

The difficulties come as regulatory hurdles at the federal and state level as well as logistical and technical challenges have slowed the roll out of testing kits across the United States, according to healthcare providers, public health officials and test makers.

None of the facility’s other 143 patients are yet suspected being infected, said Dr. Peter Beilenson, director of Sacramento County’s Department of Health Services. But he said local authorities could not test them all immediately because they had been allocated only 20 kits per day by federal agencies.

Nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, where patients tend to be more vulnerable to illness, have proven particularly susceptible to outbreaks of COVID-19.

 

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