Amazon is reportedly in talks to help deliver COVID-19 tests in the UK
Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.The UK government has reportedly approached private delivery companies including Amazon to help deliver COVID-19 tests to health and social care workers, The Financial Times reports.Amazon declined to comment when contacted by Business Insider.
One of the officials said that one proposal would make two kinds of test orderable on Amazon's website: The regular test to detect the virus and another to detect whether someone has antibodies against the disease, meaning they already had it and developed an immunity. Amazon's contracted deliverypeople would then take the tests to a private diagnostic company.
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