Coronavirus outbreak: Amazon begins making testing lab for workforce

Amazon.com has started building a lab that will enable it to test employees for the Covid-19 virus, the latest step the online retailer is taking to try to protect its warehouse workers and delivery drivers who are getting essential products to customers sheltering at home.
 

Amazon acknowledges its ad-hoc effort may not accomplish much during the current pandemic.
 

Still, it is assigning a team of scientists, software engineers and procurement specialists to build a lab that will let the company “start testing small numbers of our front line employees soon.” Tests are scarce, which has prevented public health officials from