can now order free at-home coronavirus tests from the federal government online or by using a new hotline. people need a test immediately, we continue to encourage them to utilize one of the many testing options that are out there in addition to the website. 20,000 community-based testing sites nationwide, federal surge sites, dozens of which have opened in the last few weeks are online. reporter: let s talk more about the at-home test kits. the biden administration says she want to push out 1 billion kits to persons all across the cou, four per household. but there are people saying they ve received error message when they try to go online and get them sent to their homes. they say they were getting error messages saying their properties weren t registered. just yesterday the biden administration says it is working directly with usps to try to address some of those
over the last several weeks because the huge number of patients coming in. that has a big impact on the rest of the city. it s wall to wall stretchers. we have no capacity left at the hospital. reporter: the message from health care experts to get vaccinated and boosted also comes with a renewed push to limit the spread of the virus. and to alleviate long lines at testing sites across the country, you can now order free at-home coronavirus tests from the federal government online or by using a new hotline. people need a test immediately, we continue to encourage them to utilize one of the many testing options that are out there in addition to the website. 20,000 community-based testing sites nationwide, federal surge sites, dozens of which have opened in the last few weeks or online. reporter: and testing is such a big issue here in the city of atlanta, we saw those long lines especially around the holidays here and so for the atlanta public school district when they came back to
reporter: the message from healthcare experts to get vaccinated and boosted also comes with a renewed push to limit the spread of the virus and to alleviate long lines at testing sites across the country. you can now order free at-home coronavirus tests from the federal government. online or by using a few hot line. people need to test immediately. we continue to encourage them to utilize one of the many testing options that are out there in addition to the website. 20,000 community-based testing sites nationwide, federal surge sites, dozens of which have opened in the last few weeks are online. still to come this morning, lethal aid from the ukraine from the u.s. is in ukraine now. it feels of a russian invasion along the border. it s so very real. we are live in kiev for the latest. also, it will be illegal in florida soon to make people feel uncomfortable or guilty over
capacity right now. we ve had to divert ambulances over the last several weeks because of the huge number of patients coming in. that has a big impact on the rest of the city. it s wall to wall. we have no capacity left at the hospital. reporter: the message from health care experts to get vaccinated and boosted also comes with a renewed push to limit the spread of the virus. and to alleviate long lines at testing sites across the country, you can now order free at-home coronavirus tests from the federal government, online or by using a new hotline. people need a test immediately. we continuously encourage them to utilize one of the testing options out there in addition to the website. 20,000 community-based testing sites nationwide. federal surge sites, dozens of which have opened online. reporter: nadia romero, cnn, atlanta. and the rapid spread of the omicron variant of covid-19 have left parents with their young