The US government is buying 500 million at-home rapid COVID tests that Americans can order online for free starting in January, according to Joe Biden
And he also pleaded with the"tens of millions" who have been double-vaccinated but not yet boosted to come forward.
The employee spent around 30 minutes on Air Force One while the president was travelling to Philadelphia from Orangeburg, South Carolina on Friday, before developing symptoms on Sunday night. Maine has battling a huge increase in daily cases in the past fortnight - up from 624 on 5 December to 915 cases on 19 December.
Around 42,000 tested positive between Wednesday and Saturday - compared with fewer than 35,800 in all of November.
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