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Twenty athletes, including 10 from Nigeria, will not be allowed to participate in track and field at the Olympics because they did not meet anti-doping testing requirements in the lead-up to the Games. The Athletics Integrity Unit, which runs the anti-doping program for the sport, requires athletes from countries categorized as “high risk” because of deficiencies in their testing programs…

“Sorry I wasn’t on my phone,” is the text swimmer Lydia Jacoby sent her family group chat after winning a gold medal. “I was at doping [testing] and media.” Hear what other athletes’ first texts were and who they were addressed to.

U.S. health officials say that most fully vaccinated Americans can skip testing for COVID-19, even if they were exposed to someone infected

Specialized High School Admissions Test results for the 2021-2022 school year admissions show offers to the city’s Black and Latino students in percentage terms are down over both 2020 and 2019, according to the New York City Department of Education. This year, 23,528 8th graders took the SHSAT, with a total of 4,262 receiving an offer to a specialized high school…

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a new threshold Thursday for closing public schools over coronavirus outbreaks.

A report says members of Gov. Cuomo’s family were given priority for COVID-19 testing during the early days of the pandemic, when such testing was scarce. Marc Santia reports.

Declaring New York state’s demonstration with the Buffalo Bills an “unparalleled success,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday he will extend the testing- based program to any large stadium or arena later this month. That means fans who provide a negative PCR test within 72 hours of an event will be able to attend music shows and performances as well as...

At the mass testing sites, a person blows into a bag, and the air is tested in two minutes.

Three major airlines have agreed to test travelers from the U.K. before boarding daily flights to New York. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

Scientist Melissa Miller never knows what to expect at her lab from week to week. Since last spring, there’s been a constant shortage of testing supplies. Sometimes it’s the reagents needed to run tests, and other times it’s as simple as the plastic tips used on the pipettes, NBC News reports. “The shortages still exist,” said Miller, director of...

New testing locations are popping up across New York City as the U.S. sets new records for testing this week. Marc Santia reports.

Federal officials say national reading and math tests used to track what U.S. students know are being postponed from next year to 2022 over concerns about whether such testing would be feasible or produce valid results amid the pandemic

COVID-19 testing sites will expand in Jersey City as the state’s coronavirus cases continue to rise ahead of the Thanks. Tracie Strahan reports.

More people are waiting for hours in long lines to get tested for the coronavirus, as cases surge nationwide and families hope to gather safely for the holidays

U.S. regulators are allowing emergency use of the first rapid coronavirus test that can be done entirely at home

Places like CityMD said that long lines are now the norm as COVID rates continue to climb throughout the region. NBC New York’s Lynda Baquero reports.

The U.S. has reported at least 122,000 new COVID-19 cases in a single day, according to an NBC News tally. It’s the third day in a row that cases surged past 100,000.

More than $20k in fines handed out following a wedding, a birthday celebration and a private party to which COVID outbreaks were traced. News 4’s Greg Cergol reports.

Nearly eight months to the day it announced its first coronavirus case in New York City, the Empire State has topped a half-million confirmed COVID cases, the fourth-highest total in the nation behind Texas, California and Florida. Gov. Andrew Cuomo added 2,031 new cases to the tally Wednesday, the highest single-day number in months, bringing New York’s total number of…

Jen Maxfield and Greg Cergol report on the coronavirus pandemic.