The Biden administration will distribute 400 million FFP2 masks for free, a White House official announced on Wednesday (January 19). The masks will be available in several tens of thousands of distribution points, in particular pharmacies and health centers, at the end of next week, according to the same source, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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The distribution program will be fully effective in early February, she said. Faced with the wave of the Omicron variant, the White House is also betting on screening, with the operation, since Tuesday, of a website on which each American household can order free tests, to be carried out at home. A billion rapid tests must thus be distributed.