The Biden administration is reopening a program to send free COVID-19 tests through the mail.
The administration will also invest $600 million into boosting test manufacturing, Axios reported. The move comes as cases are on the rise, leading to worries about another major outbreak. Households will be able to request a free test starting Sept. 25.
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“These critical investments will strengthen our nation’s production levels of domestic at-home COVID-19 rapid tests and help mitigate the spread of the virus,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement obtained by the Washington Post.
Free at-home tests had stopped being mailed out for free in June. Roughly 755 million tests were mailed out in the first four rounds, according to federal officials.
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The revival of the program is likely to boost Republican fears that renewed COVID-19 lockdown restrictions are inbound.
Private insurers were previously required to cover eight at-home tests per month, but the expiration of the public health emergency in May ended the requirement.
