Washington: U.S. households can order 4 free at-home COVID-19 assessments from the federal government web site COVIDTests.gov starting on Thursday as a part of the Biden administration‘s efforts to deal with coronavirus infections over the winter.

The White Home stated it might use current funding to pay for the assessments because it has been unsuccessful up to now in getting Congress to go a invoice to place extra money in the direction of the U.S. COVID-19 response.

The administration would begin transport orders of the most recent spherical of free assessments throughout the week of Dec. 19. Free assessments will even be made accessible at as many as 500 main meals banks, the White Home stated.

The Biden administration got here below criticism a 12 months in the past for not making certain sufficient assessments had been accessible within the midst of a surge of COVID-19 instances and deaths. The administration later procured lots of of tens of millions of assessments to make accessible without charge to the general public.