Dillalan Amurka suna iyakance sabbin siyayyar gwajin COVID-19 yayin da buƙatu ke ƙaruwa

US e-commerce giant Amazon revealed on Wednesday that the company and its vendors are experiencing acute inventory shortages of COVID-19 test kits as demand surges amid a rise in a number of new cases since the discovery of the Omicron variant, and more people traveling over the holiday season.

Amazon announced today, that COVID-19 test kit purchases will now be limited to 10 per shopper.

Testing kits sold through vendors have also been capped, though these decisions are made by the third-party sellers, Amazon ya ce. 

A spike in home testing for COVID-19 infections amid Omicron fears has also led to major US pharmacy-store chains Walgreens da kuma CVS putting purchase caps on test kits.

Walgreens announced this week that customers are limited to four test kits each, while CVS has capped purchases at six per customer. 

Shortages of COVID-19 test kits across the US also led to President Joe Biden announcing recently that the federal government would be investing in making 500 million testing kits available to the public. 

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky urged calm in a Wednesday interview when addressing the latest coronavirus variant, which she says has a “rapid” rate of transmission. 

“We have vaccines. We have boosters, and we have all the science that demonstrates the prevention interventions like masking in indoor settings work to mitigate the spread of this virus,” Walensky said, adding there “is really no need to panic.”

Omicron strain of COVID-19 virus was first identified by scientists in South Africa last month and has since been confirmed in multiple countries, including the US, where it has become the dominant coronavirus variant.