Companies ask more workers to take coronavirus tests, but logistics are complicated
Covid-19 testing regimes are taking hold at big companies as they try to get back to business and prevent outbreaks on the job.
Employees at Smithfield Foods Inc., Ford Motor Co. and UnitedHealth Group Inc. have begun reporting to tents and clinics or getting kits in the mail for coronavirus testing. The tests, combined with mandatory face masks and social-distancing practices on the job, are intended to protect staff and provide managers with a real-time sense of the virus’s presence in their ranks.
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