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US pharmacies will test for coronavirus for free: what you need to know

American network pharmacies CVS and Walgreens will allow free for some categories of US residents to be tested for coronavirus in May, writes "Voice of America".

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CVS announced that more than 1,000 of its pharmacies (one in 10 of the chain's total) will provide self-test kits to people who meet Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) criteria. The goal is to provide one and a half million sets in a month.

Their competitor Walgreens announced the opening of mobile checkpoints in many states, where it will be possible to analyze mucus from the nose without leaving the car. Once these centers are fully deployed, they will be able to test 50 people weekly, the company said. Such centers already operate in 000 states. People must also meet CDC criteria and pre-record online.

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The CDC's criteria include "high priority" for hospitalized patients, healthcare and emergency workers with symptoms, inmates or shelter residents with symptoms, and people ordered tested because they have been exposed to someone who is sick. The CDC's "priority" group includes people who have symptoms of coronavirus and people without symptoms who have been ordered to be tested by medical professionals.

Let us remind you that the main symptoms of COVID-19 are fever, shortness of breath, cough, chills, pain in muscles, head, throat, loss of smell and taste.

In mid-March, Walmart, the world's largest revenue company, opened such points for testing, and by the end of May their number will be increased from 25 to 100 to conduct 20 tests weekly. 000 people have already been tested at these points.

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