New York: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said that any person with COVID-19 symptoms was now eligible for a test, as the city was trying to reach its daily goal of testing 20,000 people. In addition, contacts of COVID-19 patients and workers in gathering places, such as homeless shelters and detention centres, can receive the test, Xinhua news agency quoted the Mayor as saying at his daily press briefing on Thursday. More medical workers and personal protective equipment can be spared from hospitals to testing sites, said the Myor, expressing his confidence in achieving the daily goal of testing 20,000 people by May 25, when 12 additional testing sites will be added across all five boroughs. Reiterating his call for more funding from the federal government, the Mayor said that the city spent $7 billion paying for police, teachers, health care workers and other frontline heroes during the first few weeks of the outbreak. So far, the city has reported over 186,000 COVID-19cases and more than 15,300 confirmed deaths. (IANS)