USADA tries 'virtual' testing amid COVID-19 pandemic

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in Lagos. He visited Nairobi’s innovation outlet iHub, as well as BRCK, maker an internet connectivity device used in education. [Brendan Bray, AFP]

The US Anti-Doping Agency has come up with a novel random testing program to cope with the unique circumstances of the coronavirus pandemic.

With the United States, like much of the world, under lockdown as authorities try to slow the spread of the virus, USADA has launched a program in which athletes collect blood and urine samples from themselves at home, while being monitored remotely on Zoom or FaceTime by testing personnel.