States will soon be able to screen people for coronavirus with tests that previously only the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been able to use.

The CDC announced Thursday that it has begun sending test kits to about 200 state and local labs as well as to 200 international labs. State labs did not have access to the tests, which can provide results in a matter of hours, until the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency declaration Wednesday that state health experts could use them.

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