Walgreens and CVS to open 17 drive-thru coronavirus testing sites

Walgreens Boots Alliance and CVS Health Corp will be opening drive-thru coronavirus testing sites offering the new diagnostic that can provide a positive result in just five minutes. Both drugstore chains will be using the test developed by Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories, which has been praised by President Donald Trump.  CVS said it was launching two … Read more

Self-driving vans are ferrying coronavirus tests from drive-thru sites to a Mayo Clinic campus

Self-driving vans are ferrying coronavirus tests from drive-thru locations in Florida to the Mayo Clinic campus in order to minimize exposure and free up healthcare workers The Mayo Clinic in Florida is using self-driving vans during  the coronavirus The vehicles are transporting tests from sites to the Jacksonville laboratory Vans travel along roads that have been … Read more

Sean Penn and girlfriend Leila George help direct CORE’s coronavirus drive-thru testing site

Sean Penn and girlfriend Leila George help direct coronavirus drive-thru testing site run by his non-profit CORE By Kevin Kayhart For Dailymail.com Published: 01:21 BST, 6 April 2020 | Updated: 07:07 BST, 6 April 2020 He’s on the front line in the battle to stop the spread of the growing coronavirus pandemic.  Sean Penn’s non-profit … Read more

Brewery opens drive-thru beer collection service

Just don’t drink it until you get home! Brewery opens up drive-thru beer collection station for those looking to ease pain of coronavirus lockdown The Castle Rock Brewery in Nottingham has launched a drive-thru to allow customers to replenish their beer Customers order and pay for their beer in advance and arrange a time to … Read more

How can Americans get tested for coronavirus? Drive-thru and at-home tests sprout up

A shortage of test kits for coronavirus has triggered fury and frustration among Americans as the infection has spread with alarming speed through the US.  Now, new tests and types of tests are being produced and quickly rushed into use by local public health labs, universities, and private companies in the wake of the Trump … Read more

Germany is now using drive-thru centres to swab patients for coronavirus

Someone who is infected with the coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say. Nearly 4,000 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and more than 110,000 have been infected. Here’s what we know so far: What is the coronavirus?  A coronavirus is a type of … Read more