Dating During A Pandemic: Free COVID Tests For Tinder Matches

Online dating app Tinder is not only matching up potential suiters, but it is making it easier for them to meet up by giving them free COVID tests. The matchmaking site has teamed up with Everlywell to give away 1,000 of the company's COVID-19 Test Home Collection Kits for free to potential matches to check their virus status before they venture out on a date. Love matches can request a test for themselves and their match before their date, starting on Saturday at 7 p.m. ET, where they will receive a code to claim their mail-in COVID test from the Tinder app. According to Tinder, its members are itching to go on a date as the feature hit an all-time high in U.S. bios in February as daters looked to meet up with their matches. As of October 2020, more than 40% of Tinder members under the age of 30 had not yet met their match in person due to the coronavirus pandemic, the company said.