Rite Aid To Expand Coronavirus Testing At South Jersey Store

CAMDEN COUNTY, NJ — Rite Aid is expanding testing criteria for its self-swab testing site for new coronavirus at its store in Barrington, store officials announced. The store is located at 501 Clements Bridge Road in Barrington.

Anyone 18 years of age or older who has a fever, is coughing, showing shortness of breath, chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat and/or new loss of taste or smell will now be eligible to pre-register and schedule appointments for the free self-swab tests at www.riteaid.com.

The site uses self-swab tests, administered in the store's parking lot and overseen by Rite Aid pharmacists from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily.

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"From the beginning of this crisis we made it our mission to support our communities and associates, and to move as quickly as we can to provide solutions,” Rite Aid President/CEO Heyward Donigan said. “I'm incredibly proud of our pharmacy teams — it's their hard work that has allowed Rite Aid to ramp up testing so quickly, and enables us to expand testing criteria to include all adults exhibiting symptoms."

Rite Aid began testing at 25 stores nationwide, including the Barrington store, on April 20. Read more here: Rite Aid To Perform Coronavirus Testing At South Jersey Store

Rite Aid has partnered with Verily and will use its Baseline COVID-19 Program to provide screening, scheduling, and return of results to participants for Rite-Aid testing sites.

Rite Aid also selected BioReference Laboratories to provide COVID-19 laboratory testing to all drive-up locations with the goal of flattening the curve through accessible diagnostic testing.

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Clinical oversight for the coronavirus testing program is provided by PWNHealth, a national clinician network that enables safe and easy access to diagnostic testing.

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