New York City will soon be able to process thousands of coronavirus tests daily, up from hundreds each day after the Federal Drug Administration gave emergency authorization for the tests to the Swiss company Roche, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday.

“After pleading with the federal government and the FDA for many many weeks to authorize more testing they finally this morning, for one of the major testing companies, authorized automated testing,” de Blasio said on WNYC radio.

“We are on the pathway now as a city to be able to get thousands of tests done in a day and then get the results back the same day,” de Blasio added.

“That’s going to ramp up now. That is the first time we’re finally going to be able to have the testing capacity to get to a lot more people, which we’ve been needing for a long long time,” he said.

New Yorkers should still go through their primary care physicians for testing or call the city’s 311 help line if they don’t have a doctor, de Blasio said.

He cautioned that testing will still be prioritized for high-risk patients including people over 50 with pre-existing condition and people who have traveled to COVID-19 hotspots or come into contact with an infected person.

While testing capacity will increase, so will the number of positive cases, said de Blasio. On Thursday he warned that 1,000 New Yorkers will likely to test positive for the virus by next week.