Senate Passes Fourth COVID-19 Spending Package, Includes $25Bn For Additional Testing, Contact Tracing

The US Senate on 21 April approved a $484bn spending package providing tens of billions of dollars to compensate Medicare suppliers that have already supplied diagnoses, testing supplies and personal protection equipment (PPE) to detect the coronavirus, and $25bn more to expand COVID-19 testing.

House members, almost all of whom are self-quarantining or working in their home districts since the end of March, have been summoned back to Washington, DC, by House Speaker Nancy...