 Brazilian lender Banco Bradesco SA said on Friday it had started to test branch employees for COVID-19, the first part of a program planned for almost all of its nearly 100,000 employees. Bradesco, the second largest private-sector Brazilian lender, said the first tests had been carried out on about 100 employees of branches in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. This mapping will allow us to contribute to our national effort to flatten the disease spread curve, Bradesco Chief Executive Octavio de Lazari said in a statement. 