During the end of the last week, around one-fourth of the hospitals from different parts of the United States registered issues with the Public health department regarding the shortage of medical supplies and frontline workers. And this has been giving sleepless nights to the government authorities and government to tackle such issues.
COVID Rapid Testing Kit Promised By Biden To Facilitate Home Testing
In the Month of December when the omicron variant cases started to surge and President Joe Biden promised the American population to offer them half a billion Covid 19 testing kits.
Even in the last news briefing, President Joe Biden stressed the fact that the testing kits will be made available in some time and by the time people must get themselves vaccinated.
Also, he stated that his administration has directed all the states to increase the vaccination facility.
Today, many medical experts reiterated what he said and criticized the government for its late response. He stated owing to the rise in Covid infection cases the need to introduce Covid testing kits on a mass scale, In his announcement, he stated that the federal government is soon going to buy 500 million Covid rapid testing kits and will distribute them for free to enhance the testing facility in the country.
This move was planned by the administration to boost the testing process and make testing accessible for all.
The emergence of the Omicron variant and the rise in the number of Covid infection cases has increased the demand for testing. However, the officials of the White House said that despite the demand for the Covid testing kit it will still take time to make these testing kits available for all.
Many states have argued that there is a high shortage of testing kits in the country and a dire demand has arisen because the cases are increasing very fastly and more than the expected rate.
Now according to the latest updates, the government is planning to conduct a bidding process by asking testing kits manufacturers to apply to the departments of Defense and Health and Human Services by this week.
Also, the contracts are being issued to make the tests and testing kit available on a massive scale. The first contract of the Covid testing kit was for $51.6 million. Furthermore, additional contracts are also being signed for the coming weeks so that there is no shortage of testing facilities.
Although the President already stated that a complete lot of the testing kit will be made within 2 months and 500 million Covid testing kits are soon to be expected to be delivered in various batches in the coming few weeks, stated The White House Administration.
The introduction of the Covid testing kit is one of the most thoughtful moves of the Biden government to limit the spread of Covid infections. The government intends to encourage and increase access to Covid testing and by these new testing kits, the shortage will reduce drastically.
