The federal government is reinstating its program under which others can request and receive free Covid-19 testing (just months after the original program was suspended) as hospitalizations and deaths continue to rise.
Orders will resume on September 25 and there is a limit of one package containing four proofs depending on residential address.
Orders can be placed in www. COVIDtests. gov and are delivered through the U. S. Postal Service. The first rounds are expected to ship the week of Oct. 2.
The Department of Health and Human Services said the tests will be used until the end of this year, Axios reported, and the government expects to get about two hundred million new tests.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra announced Wednesday the return of the program to reporters when he won his reminder, saying Biden “wants to make sure no one can pass without getting tested. “
775 million. That’s the number of tests sent in the past under the program, reaching more than two-thirds of U. S. households. According to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The government began sending loose tests to families by mail in January 2022, but suspended the program last September for fear of running out of tests before an imaginable winter surge. The Biden administration revived the program in December 2022 before postponing it again on June 1 to “preserve remaining supply. “
The program’s overhaul comes as Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths are rising across the country. In the past week, hospitalizations rose 7. 7 percent and deaths rose 4. 5 percent, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ABC News reported it’s the first time hospitalizations have topped 20,000 since March.
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