Apple employees working remotely can now get tested for the coronavirus without leaving the house.
The tech giant will ship Covid-19 test kits to its workers’ homes, the company confirmed to CNN Business on Monday.
The news was first reported by Bloomberg.
Apple has been cautious about reopening its offices and retail outlets as coronavirus cases continue to spike in several states. The company reopened more than 100 US stores in early March, but re-closed most of those last month. It is also offering only curbside pickup at several stores and requiring temperature checks for employees and customers at stores that are allowing people inside.
The company also reportedly began offering Covid-19 nasal swab tests to employees returning to its headquarters in Cupertino, California, in May.
Apple is not the only tech company testing its employees. Amazon, which has been criticized for not doing enough to protect its warehouse workers during the pandemic, said in April that it was developing a Covid-19 testing lab and would start testing “small numbers of employees.”
