South Korea To Provide Testing Materials To U.S.

South Korea says it plans to provide coronavirus testing materials to the United States in response to President Donald Trump’s request for help. The director of South Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the country is willing to send chemical reagents used to extract genetic material during COVID-19 tests, but at a level that doesn’t affect its own testing capacity. She didn’t provide a detailed estimate on the size of supplies that could be shipped to the United States. South Korea is pushing an aggressive test-and-quarantine program that some experts say possibly contributed to its lower death toll in comparison with mainland China and hard-hit European nations.