FOX 29's Steve Keeley reports the latest details. Pennsylvania will roll out a plan to begin coronavirus testing for every resident and employee of nursing homes and other facilities that provide care for older adults, Gov.

Tom Wolf said Tuesday. Wolf said his administration will undertake the surveillance testing, with a goal of testing every resident and employee once a week, given the pandemic's tremendous toll on nursing homes. "What we are going to do, which I think is fairly radical, is make sure that we are doing surveillance testing," Wolf said on a telephone news conference. RELATED COVERAGE: CORONAVIRUS Wolf's health secretary, Dr.

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