CVS Health Corp said on Thursday it would roll out more than 50 COVID-19 testing sites at select pharmacy drive-thru locations in five U.S. states, and expects to have up to 1,000 such locations across the country by the end of the month.
The drugstore chain, which has been operating large-scale testing sites since early April, said the new locations will be across Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
The aim is ramp up testing, reduce burden on hospitals and emergency rooms and to keep patients in cars to avoid spreading the infection. The coronavirus outbreak has infected more than 4.3 million people and caused over 290,000 deaths globally, according to a Reuters tally. CVS, which has a health insurance business, a large pharmacy benefit manager and retail pharmacy stores, plans to process up to 1.5 million tests every month with the new sites.
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