NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on April 5. Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he wants to have community testing for coronavirus available by the end of next week.

De Blasio said at a press conference Sunday he will be asking for 110,000 individualized tests from the federal government to make this a reality while setting up new testing centers in targeted communities.

By the end of next week, de Blasio intends to set up Health and Hospitals testing centers in East New York, Brooklyn; Morrisania Bronx; Harlem, New York; Jamaica, Queens and Clifton, Staten Island.

This push for widespread community testing is part of "phase two," de Blasio said.

He said communities of color, lower income communities, immigrant communities, and vulnerable “folks who haven’t had the healthcare they needed and deserved throughout their life” have been impacted.

“We cannot accept this inequality we have to attack it with every tool we have," de Blasio said.

These new testing centers also provide an opportunity to put some people back to work. De Blasio said the new sites, as well as public hospitals, and eventually private and voluntary systems, are hiring temporary, non-clinical staff.

These will include things like helping to transport patients, cleaning and maintenance of facilities.

"I want to do everything I can to give people back their livelihood," de Blasio said.