The Biden administration 'new project' came online, but problems followed.
According to CNN, the Associated Press and other media reports, the Biden administration "quietly" launched a new website "COVIDtests.gov" on the 18th local time, and the public can make a free appointment for home new crown test kits through online means and deliver them directly to their homes. However, after the launch of the website, various problems also followed. Some netizens reflected on Twitter: there are problems such as not being able to identify the home address and showing that the home address has been used.
(Screenshot of CNN report)
Enter the homepage of the website, you can see the Biden administration's specific introduction to this appointment service, stipulating that an American family is eligible to book 4 home COVID-19 test kits for free, and the order will be delivered 7 to 12 days after the appointment.
(Screenshot of the homepage of the new U.S. government website)
According to the report, the US White House press secretary Psaki confirmed the launch of the website on the 18th, saying that it is currently in the "testing stage" and said that "it will be officially run tomorrow (the morning of the 19th local time in the United States)".
On Twitter, some netizens have successively reported the problems they have encountered in the operation of the website.
Some netizens said that the home address they filled in could not be recognized: "It cannot recognize that my apartment is an apartment." "Verifying my address is very difficult, even though I've tried a lot of different (address) formats, including the official (format) version of the U.S. Postal Service."
Some netizens also reported that because they live in a multi-family apartment, when filling in the address, they will display the prompt of "the address has been booked", resulting in their inability to operate the next step: "It shows that someone has made an appointment on my address, which is not right!" "Can a multifamily apartment be reserved by only one person?" I have my own mail (address), what the hell is going on, US POST? ”
According to the Associated Press, the US government tracking data shows that on the 18th local time, 750,000 people visited the website at the same time, but it is not clear the specific number of order reservations. Before this report was published, clicking on the "Appointment" button in the middle of the "COVIDtests.gov" of this new website, the page could not be displayed normally.
(The page does not display properly after clicking the "Appointment" button of the new website)
The New York Times previously reported that it was difficult for Americans to get tested for COVID-19 in the presence of the highly contagious Aomi Kerong strain. Some people have criticized US President Joe Biden for not increasing the supply of covid-19 test kits quickly enough. To this end, the Biden administration has announced the purchase of 1 billion test kits, which are planned to be distributed free of charge in two free installments. According to the real-time statistics system of global new crown pneumonia data released by Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of 6 p.m. Eastern Time on January 18, 2022, a total of 67172295 confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia and 853536 deaths have been reported in the United States. In the past 24 hours, the United States has confirmed 815959 new cases and 1848 new deaths.
Source: World Wide Web