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Free COVID test kits are back: Here’s how to get yours
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Starting November 20, every U.S. household can again place an order to receive four more free COVID-19 rapid tests delivered directly to their home. If you didn’t order tests since the program reopened in September, the site will let you place two orders for a total of eight tests. Order your test kits through COVID.gov. Orders will ship free starting the week of November 27, 2023.
The kits will include instructions on how to verify extended expiration dates. Many kits have had their expiration dates extended beyond what may be printed on the packaging.
You don’t have to pay for shipping, and you’ll never be asked for a credit card or bank account number. You only need to give a name and shipping address. If you’d like an email confirmation and delivery updates from the U.S. Postal Service, you can submit your email address. Anyone who asks for more information than that is a scammer. So, remember:
- Only go to COVID.gov to order your free test kits from the federal government. When you click to order, you’ll be redirected to special.usps.com/testkits. If you’re following a link from a news story, double-check the URL that shows in your browser’s address bar.
- No one will call, text, or email you from the federal government to ask for your information to “help” you order free kits. Don’t give out your credit card, bank account, or Social Security number. Do not respond. Instead, report it to the FTC at ReportFraud.ftc.gov.
This blog, originally posted on September 25, 2023, has been updated to reflect the extension of free COVID test kits through COVID.gov.
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Can I get some tests kits
I requested kits from FREE COVID KITS FROM .GOV THEY ADKED ME MIRE insurance Info and my Group number Have I been scammed They said the kits would b Sent by Fast Lab
Just received my test kits, expired but extended ti Jan 2024, only 3 months!!!
i want MORE!
Got my free COVID tests yesterday, October 5, 2023. They expired 6-6-23. Now what?
I didn’t get my free Covid test , neither did my sister whom lives at another address what do we do ? We sent for it on the first day they became available,but we do not get it
I ha ve just completed taking Paxlovid meds after contracting Covid 19 on an out of town Church trip to Kentucky.
i was confirmed at my local Kroger The Little Clinic in Peachtree City GA.
Please send my free kits.Thank you, Barbara S. Felth
Our tests arrived with the seals broken. We have to throw them away.
These (I believe the authentic government-sent ones) are a con: mine have an expiration date three months ago, and nothing like those lot numbers are on the website for extended dates.
Can you please send me free covid fast test for myself & my family Thanks& God Bless You All I wish Everyone Else’s Family a Healthy & Safe Holidays from my family to yours2025
If the FDA is sending more free Covid tests as of Sept. 2023, why are they sending expired ones? The tests I received in the mail are not on the extended expiration date list, so you’re sending something that is not any good?! Are you letting the public know this? I don’t find anything on the website stating you’re sending possible expired tests.
Ordered tests - as of Sunday 10/8/23 have not received.....
Thank you but we filled the online forms since 2 weeks ago,have not gotten any yet...still wait and see!...Minot Maine 10/7/2023
So if I didn’t get my free test yet what do I need to do? It’s been over two weeks.
Thanks for your help
I ordered free at home test and 0n Oct 7, 2023 I received expired tests.
REALLY!!!‼️ Rec’d tests on Friday, October 6. Lot # 199238 with original expiration date of 6/28/2023. Looked up lot number for extended date of January 28, 2024! WOW…A WHOLE THREE AND A HALF MONTHS OF DATE EXTENSION FROM TIME OF RECEIPT‼️ Useless as far as I am concerned. As a 79 year old senior, I am appalled. Why bother? To get rid of old tests is my guess.
Where can I get free COVID test kit?
Free Covid tests??Waste of time and gov't funds i.e. our money. Expiration date increased 1 yr. ADD ONE YR TO THE EXPIRATION DATE ON THE COVID TESTS I RECEIVED, THEY EXPIRE FEB 7TH 2024 - 4 MONTHS!!!
I ordered the newly free test kits awhile back but they never got here. I just re-ordered them thru an automated system by telephone but all it told me was that I'd already ordered the new free ones. So I have no idea if we'll receive them or not. There should be a live body to talk to, the automated system didn't really get me anywhere and I guess I won't get the new free tests??? What can I do to get them now?
I received my test kits that expired & were extended only until 2/24/24. That is only a little over 4 months. What happens in February if I need to use them? Will you send more? Why send ones that expire so quickly?
Got my tests today and they were expired!!!! Date of exp is 6/19/2023. I checked on the list of extended expiration dates and they are only extended until Jan 2024... what good is this???
Received my free Covid tests and there is no liquid in some of them and only a drop in the others - not enough to take the test accurately. Can we get replacements?
Kits received today, have July 2023 expiration date! I know an extension has been issued but even revised date is only good until 11/23! Seems like a waste of $ to mail kits for covid tests that have limited use, a timeframe that is absurd.
I only received 2 kits. I thought I was to receive 4.
Need free COVID tests.
Free covid test
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5 of them
My kits never arrived. Thinking I made a mistake during the order process I tried to order again. There was an error message that my house allowed kits had been exceeded. What should I do to get kits?
Want test
i just received (10/12/23) my FREE COVID tests. They expired on 6/13/23! What a JOKE!!!!
Free test Please.
I just got the free tests and the expiration date is 2023-07-10.
This needed to be known
I ordered the new free test a couple weeks ago and wondering when I will receive them. Thank you
I went on line government site, ordered free COVID test kits 9/28/23 to be mailed, is this fraud going on where you order it on line then the mail carrier is supposed to deliver them or are these COVID test kits being pocketed!!
There should be more tests available to those who don’t want to share in their household. If people living together don’t want to share it’s a problem. We have 4 people, and it’s important to retest- why not have more test’s available each week until November? Then do it again in December? Or at least give an update on when more free tests will be available.
My test did not have any fluid in the tubes to check the swab
I ordered the test kits and I never got them. I tried to re-order and got a message that I have reached my limit. I don’t know where they ended up, but they certainly didn’t come to my house..
I received my new Covid test GCCOV date says January 2023 is it already expired?
How did I order my free covid tests, get a confirmation number with 2 different delivery dates then get told my address was Incomplete!!??
The tests sent are not indicated for children under 14. Unacceptable.
Have requested the new COVID at Home tests and need to know how long must you wait to receive the tests?
It has been more than 2 weeks since the request and STILL NOT ONE TEST RECEIVED.
I would like to rec. the free Covid test for me
I just received Abbott free BinaxNow home tests. Date 7-29-23 has expired on package. Sloppy offers US Government.
My 2 boxes of free Covid test I got today in mail were opened and parts of the test were sticking out. Can I get new boxes
The Covid tests I received on 10/9/2023 were expired dated 7/17/2023.
I know the expiration has been extended
Why are we receiving old
exspired test kits.
Postal service isn't free nor the kits.
Received our free ‘BinaxNOW’ test kits yesterday only to discover they expired over three months ago. Looking on the FDA’a web site as directed to see extended expiration date I discover our lot numbers not listed. Even the closest lot number to ours was only extended to Jan 24.
Thanks for that. :-(
I ordered tests a week or two ago and still didn’t receive them
I would like free Covid test