Health officials in the United States of America have disclosed the government’s free COVID-19 test delivery programs would reopen in late September, in time for the holiday season, and that they had launched an educational campaign targeting those at risk of severe disease.
The free testing program would be launched “as families start to move indoors this fall and begin spending time with their loved ones, both very old and very young,” Dawn O’Connell, an official at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, disclosed.
These measures come as the rate of COVID hospitalizations and deaths in the U.S. have increased in the last three months. Hospitalizations jumped from 1.1 per 100,000 people at the beginning of May to 4.4 at the beginning of August.
