Government’s website offers free COVID-19 tests

On Monday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declared that households can now receive an additional four complimentary COVID-19 tests that can be taken at home.

The tests will be sent straight to households and can be ordered via a government website. According to HHS, the new tests will begin to be shipped the week of November 27.

This autumn, homes are qualified for complimentary COVID-19 tests for the second time. The Biden administration reopened covid.gov/tests on September 25 and is now offering four free COVID-19 tests to households. After $600 million was set aside to produce the tests, there was a relaunch.

Two hundred million COVID-19 tests would be produced with the $600 million.

Up to eight free at-home COVID-19 tests are available to households that haven’t ordered any since September.

At the height of the omicron variant, in January 2022, Covid.gov/tests was first launched. During the initial launch, around 40 million households requested free samples.

The at-home tests don’t need to be dropped off at the lab and typically yield findings in 30 minutes.

After experiencing symptoms of COVID-19, such as fever, sore throat, runny nose, or loss of taste, officials advise taking an at-home COVID-19 test. Additionally, they advise testing five days following close interaction with a person who has COVID-19.

For the week of November 11, 16,239 hospital admissions were recorded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is more than three and a half years after COVID-19 started to spread across the country.