Americans can start ordering free COVID-19 test kits from the federal government again.
The U.S. government will mail COVID tests to people who order them through the United States Postal Service. You can order them online here, or by calling 1-800-232-0233.
Each order consists of four rapid antigen tests, and will ship free — there is an order limit of two per residential address — for a total of eight tests — according to the USPS website.
President Joe Biden announced the federal government would send COVID tests to Americans during his State of the Union speech on March 1, marking the second time the U.S. government has made a push to send free COVID tests out to Americans through the mail. People could order tests the first time starting on Jan. 19, 2022.
“If you already ordered free tests, tonight I’m announcing you can order another group of tests. Go to Covidtest.gov starting next week and you can get more tests,” Biden said during his State of the Union speech.
During the last COVID test order window, tests “typically” shipped within 7-12 days of ordering, according to the White House.
The Biden administration planned to distribute 500 million free test kits, but fewer than 300 million were ordered as of the end of February, White House assistant press secretary Kevin Munoz told CNN Business.
The U.S. leads the world with 79.3 million cases of COVID-19 and 955,621 fatalities.
The news comes as the global death toll from the pandemic reached 6 million, and the World Health Organization warned that the pandemic is not yet over as death rates in Poland, Hungary and Romania remain high.
The seven-day average of deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. fell to 1,510 on Sunday, down more than 31% from two weeks ago, per the New York Times tracker. The average daily number of cases fell to 44,386, a 57% drop from two weeks ago, while hospitalizations stood at 38,999, a 43% drop over the last two weeks.
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