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FILE - Youngstown City Health Department idiosyncratic Faith Terreri grabs 2 at-home COVID-19 trial kits to beryllium handed retired during a organisation event, Dec. 30, 2021, successful Youngstown, Ohio. The Biden medication connected Tuesday softly launched its website for Americans to petition escaped at-home COVID-19 tests, a time earlier the tract was scheduled to launch.The website, COVIDTests.gov, present includes a nexus for Americans to an bid signifier tally by the U.S. Postal Service wherever Americans tin petition 4 at-home tests per residential address. (AP Photo/David Dermer, File)

WASHINGTON – The Biden medication connected Tuesday softly launched its website for Americans to petition escaped at-home COVID-19 tests, a time earlier the tract was scheduled to officially launch.

The website, COVIDTests.gov, present includes a nexus for Americans to bid up 4 at-home tests per residential address, to beryllium delivered by the U.S. Postal Service. It marks the latest measurement by President Joe Biden to code disapproval of debased inventory and agelong lines for investigating during a nationwide surge successful COVID-19 cases owed to the omicron variant.

A White House authoritative said the website is “currently successful its beta phase” and operating astatine a “limited capableness up of its authoritative launch." The website volition officially motorboat mid-morning Wednesday, the authoritative said.

Biden announced past period that the U.S. would acquisition 500 cardinal at-home tests to motorboat the programme and connected Thursday the president announced that helium was doubling the bid to 1 cardinal tests.

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But Americans shouldn’t expect a accelerated turnaround connected the orders and they volition person to program up and petition the tests good earlier they conscionable national guidelines for erstwhile to usage a test.

The White House said “tests volition typically vessel wrong 7- 12 days of ordering” done USPS, which reports shipping times of 1-3 days for its first-class bundle work successful the continental United States.

Officials emphasized that the national website is conscionable 1 mode for radical to procure COVID-19 tests, and shortages of at-home trial kits person shown signs of easing arsenic much proviso has deed the market.

Since Saturday, backstage security companies person been required to screen the outgo of at-home accelerated tests, allowing Americans to beryllium reimbursed for tests they acquisition astatine pharmacies and online retailers. That covers up to 8 tests per month.

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