By ANNIE ROPEIK
NH Public Radio

The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard will 3D print up to 10,000 a day of these COVID-19 test swabs, made from surgical grade resin. CREDIT JIM CLEVELAND / US NAVY — *The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard will 3D print up to 10,000 a day of these COVID-19 test swabs, made from surgical grade resin.* CREDIT JIM CLEVELAND / US NAVY

The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard will help the Army manufacture thousands of COVID-19 diagnostic test swabs.

The facility in Kittery, Maine will 3D print up to 10,000 swabs a day using surgical grade resin.

The long, bristled swabs are inserted into a person’s nose to get a sample that can determine if they have COVID-19. There have been widespread shortages of these swabs during the pandemic.

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