In another development, Peter Gaynor, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), told cnn on Tuesday morning that the agency will procure some 60,000 test kits under the DPA, while also applying the law to the government's contracts with the private sector involving 500 million masks.
Hours later, though, FEMA press secretary Lizzie Litzow changed course, saying in a statement: "At the last minute we were able to procure the test kits from the private market without evoking the DPA."
In the United States, which has become the global epicenter of the pandemic, confirmed cases of COVID-19 have surpassed 100,000, and death toll has risen past 1,500, according to Johns Hopkins University's latest data tracking country-by-country numbers.
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