Each U.S. household is entitled to four free test kits, which will usually be shipped in 7 to 12 days, the federal site says. Two top aides to Pope Fr

Covid News: U.S. Website for Free At-Home Tests Launches, With a Few Glitches

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Each U.S. household is entitled to four free test kits, which will usually be shipped in 7 to 12 days, the federal site says. Two top aides to Pope Francis test positive for coronavirus. Cruise lines cancel several trips as Omicron rages.

The Biden administration’s new website allowing people to order up to four free at-home coronavirus tests quietly went live on Tuesday — a day in advance of its formal launch — and demand already appeared to be significant.

A combined total of more than one million visitors were on the home page and the ordering page of covidtests.gov at one point Tuesday evening — more than 40 times as many as were on the government site with the next highest traffic, the U.S. Postal Service’s package-tracking page, according to analytics.usa.gov, which monitors traffic on participating federal websites.

At a White House news conference on Tuesday, President Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, said that the official launch would take place on Wednesday morning, but that the site had begun taking orders during what she described as a “beta testing phase” conducted by the U.S. Digital Service, the government’s technology support division.

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