Walmart is using drones to deliver COVID-19 tests in Las Vegas

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If you need to get a COVID-19 test, but don't want to go near people, Walmart's got you covered. At least if you live near its North Las Vegas store.

"We hope drone delivery of self-collection kits will shape contactless testing capabilities on a larger scale and continue to bolster the innovative ways Walmart plans to use drone delivery in the future," Tom Ward, Walmart's senior vice president of consumer products, said in a blog post.

For now, the vast majority of Americans will not have access to drone deliveries of COVID19 tests. Walmart plans to expand the drone trial to Cheektowaga, New York -- just outside Buffalo -- in early October, but no other sites have been announced. And there are limitations to the program. Drone deliveries are only available "while supplies last," between 8:30 am and 3:30 pm and to single-family homes. And deliveries can be prevented by "unanticipated physical barriers, power lines, trees, cars or weather."To keep failed deliveries to a minimum, Quest Diagnostics said that delivery areas will be "surveyed in real time" beforehand.

 

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