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Amazon is licensed by the โปรโมชั่น slotxo Food and Drug Administration for COVID-19 testing performed by STS Lab Holdco subsidiary and plans to be used for the on-site coronavirus testing program.The test is done with a nasal swab that can be performed under the supervision of a healthcare provider or as part of a home kit where patients take their own samples and send them to a lab. central


Amazon plans to use Amazon's real-time RT-PCR test for the SARS-CoV-2 (Amazon Test) detection as part of the coronavirus readiness and response program (“ COVID-19 ”) the overall company” reads the FDA authorization.The authorization also describes Amazon's employee screening program. Some Amazon employees are automatically assigned a test appointment every 14 days. The test is voluntary. “Amazon has partnered with a third-party healthcare provider. It issues the necessary prescriptions and individual test orders, ”the authorization said.


A letter of authorization sent to Cem Sibay, Amazon Labs vice president, last summer, Amazon tapped Sibay to build an in-house COVID-19 test laboratory, Business Insider reported in October.The company said it had an infrastructure for testing tens of thousands of employees. Each day The new test is an adaptation of another COVID-19 test run by BGI Genomics, which the license used by Amazon at the end of August.The company began implementing a revised version, which will become Amazon's test on August 28, 2020 during late August.

From September to the beginning of December 2020, more than 560,000 samples were available as per authorization.Amazon began selling COVID-19 home testing kits made by Genomics company DxTerity in January. That test sells for $ 110. The company continues to expand into healthcare: last week announced it would begin offering remote and home health care programs to other companies. It has been tested before, in 2018 the company is in negotiations to acquire diagnostic company Confer Health.