QuestDirect, the consumer-initiated testing business of Quest Diagnostics, has announced that its QuestDirect COVID-19 Active Infection test can be purchased online with specimen collection available in two ways: at-home or at one of over 500 Walmart Neighborhood Market drive-thru pharmacy locations across the US.

The Siemens Foundation and Siemens Healthineers are partnering with Testing for America to donate $500,000 in funding and an in-kind donation of Covid-19 testing technologies, with a market value of $2,275,000, to support the safe reopening of historically black colleges and universities across the US.

Experts from Seattle Children’s Hospital believe that Covid-19 is triggering Kawasaki disease in some cases. Prevencio has now announced the development of a blood test, HART KD for diagnosis of Kawasaki disease. The firm collaborated with Seattle Children’s Research Institute and tapped its Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven HART platform and expertise in developing cardiac blood tests. Kawasaki disease causes inflammation in the walls of arteries throughout the body and mostly occurs in children younger than five years old.

CVS Health has announced plans to add over 2,000 new Covid-19 drive-thru test sites at select CVS Pharmacy locations across the US to support the ongoing efforts to increase access to testing to help contain the spread of the virus. CVS Health is claimed to currently manage the largest number of independently run Covid-19 test sites in the country. The company expects to have more than 4,000 operating by mid-October.