Americans can order free rapid Covid-19 tests from government website on Jan. 19
. The administration has so far completed contracts for 420 million tests, the officials said. The administration officials said they were confident the U.S. would be able to secure the number of tests it has promised, adding that the government already has tens of millions of tests on hand.
The tests will be mailed to Americans via the U.S. Postal Service. In the continental U.S., tests will be shipped via first-class mail. In Hawaii, Alaska and U.S. territories, they will be sent via priority mail, the officials said.Note: For all 50 states and D.C., U.S. territories and cruises.
Rapid Covid-19 tests aren’t as accurate as laboratory-based tests and can miss infections in the beginning and end stages of the illness. But the tests work well when people are carrying a lot of virus in their systems, and they can give results from anywhere within minutes.
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