Governor Dan McKee's administration is announcing that Rhode Island has received an 82-million-dollar grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The money is for the construction of a center for excellence for laboratory sciences. McKee thanked the Biden administration for what he called a transformative grant.
“This is an exciting day for the State of Rhode Island,” said Governor Dan McKee. “Rhode Island is among the leaders nationally in testing, vaccination rates, and a safe economic reopening and building a new State Lab facility simultaneously advances our important public health goals while also catalyzing significant economic development opportunities. New state-of-the-art State Health Laboratories will be able to best serve the people of Rhode Island and accelerate Rhode Island’s innovative health initiatives.”
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