The White House is expected to announce a billion-dollar government purchase that will increase the availability of COVID-19 at-home tests on Wednesday.
The Biden administration will purchase another $1 billion of at-home tests for COVID-19. This purchase will contribute to the quadrupling of the market to 200 million COVID-19 tests per month in December, a White House official told Politico.
“There will not just be more tests on the market, but we expect much more affordable tests on the market,” the White House official said.
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In addition to producing more at-home COVID-19 tests, the administration is working to bolster the number of pharmacies offering free testing to 20,000 locations. The White House’s goal is 30,000 COVID-19 testing sites offering free testing in the nation. The increase in at-home COVID-19 tests comes after an increase in demand following the discovery of the delta variant.
In late August, CVS began limiting the amount of at-home COVID-19 tests customers could purchase to six online or four in person, Bloomberg reported.
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In the last 24 hours, the United States recorded 71,905 new positive cases of COVID-19, according to the World Health Organization.
As of Oct. 1, 64.6% of U.S. residents have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, with 55.6% fully vaccinated, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
