Another round of free COVID-19 antigen tests available for residents

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The free tests were first introduced as part of a Biden administration push to increase testing capacity and is now a major part of the ongoing COVID-19 strategy.
tangmingtung@gmail.com / Getty Images The news comes as the United States reaches the grim milestone of 1 million lives lost to COVID-19 and the country enters a "new stage" of fighting the pandemic, President Joe Biden said.
"I continue to call on Congress here at home to take the urgent action to provide emergency COVID-19 funding that is vital to protect Americans, to make sure that we maintain our supplies of COVID-19 tests, treatments and vaccines, including next-generation vaccines that are being developed," Biden said Thursday at the second Global COVID Summit.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, 257.9 million people have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 220.6 million of those are fully vaccinated.