During President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, he announced Americans will be able to order a second wave of four more free at-home COVID-19 tests, which will be delivered to their homes for free, Staten Island Advance reports.
The president announced the first wave of COVID-19 tests to be delivered to homes for free in December. This was in response to the surge in cases due to the Omicron variant rapidly becoming the dominant COVID-19 strain.
Originally, the Biden administration only order 500 million tests before the president requested 500 million more tests were ordered to bring the total to 1 billion.
The first wave of tests became available in January, and initially, individual households could only order four at-home COVID-19 tests.
Though beginning next week, the second wave of tests can be ordered via special.usps.com/testkits or COVIDtests.gov and delivered to households across the country for free.
According to the websites special.usps.com/testkits or COVIDtests.gov, these tests should take seven to 12 days for shipping.
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