Every family in the US will be entitled to free Covid tests again from next WEEK as part of $600million project to prevent winter wave

The Biden administration will again offer free at-home Covid testing to all American households starting next week.

The program, which will cost $600 million, will aim to combat a winter surge in Covid cases, which are on the rise amid the Eris and BA.2.86 variants.

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra said, “We will once again begin our program to provide Americans the opportunity to request testing.”

Starting September 25 and continuing through the end of the year, each American household can order four rapid tests at covidtests.gov.

To date, the Biden administration has shipped more than 755 million free Covid tests across the United States. The program was previously suspended in May after the administration declared the Covid public health emergency over to preserve its testing supply.

These tests are intended to be used for the rest of the year and will include instructions on how to check expiration dates, HHS said Wednesday. Many of the tests submitted before the program ended earlier this year have likely already expired, making them less accurate.