The Biden administration announced Friday that it will double its supply of coronavirus rapid tests to a total of 1 billion and make those tests freely available online for every American household.
Beginning Jan. 19, Americans can visit COVIDtests.gov to order up to four rapid tests per household (officials could not specify exactly when on the 19th the site will go live).
The move comes as the US struggles with soaring COVID-19 cases caused chiefly by the Omicron variant, which has seen case count and hospitalization records smashed nationwide.
Tests will be free and the only information required for purchase is a name and mailing address. But officials estimated the tests would not ship until 7-12 days of purchase, meaning the soonest they could arrive in homes is Jan. 26.
Joe Biden's government is making every effort to ensure that it fights to end the COVID 19 epidemic,
In early December, President Biden's administration launched an Omicron variant winter strategy, targeting more people to get the COVID 19 vaccine as well as school-age children, as well as the need for personal health insurance, later in the month. The same President Biden announced plans to send medical experts
in overcrowded health centers and hospitals, which are now being deployed, and opening 20,000 free testing sites.
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