Defense lawyers for Elizabeth Holmes are set to ask a federal judge in San Jose to push back an August trial date in the criminal fraud case against her, in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Holmes’ lawyers at Williams & Connolly filed a joint status report with federal prosecutors that indicated that the parties were close to reaching a compromise on pushing the start of trial back to some point in October. The two sides failed to reach an agreement on a proposed date, however, after the government indicated that it intended to seek two additional charges against Holmes related to patients who paid for the defunct company’s blood-testing services and to add allegations the alleged conspiracy to mislead investors, patients and doctors about the accuracy of the company’s tests dated back to 2010.

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