Walgreens COVID testing Walgreens Apologizes in an official statement on Monday evening, it was stated that the Temporary Outage impacted its immunization and testing arrangement scheduler Monday as the organization reported that there is remarkable demand for the testing and inoculations during the festive season.
Temporary Outage
They added that they have encountered a Temporary Outage of a few of their web apps which also includes the COVID-19 immunizations and testing appointment scheduler. They further said that the said issues were also fixed further and the company apologizes to their clients and patients for any kind of inconvenience suffered by them.”
Prior to the day, the app users reported the issue where they have been taken by the app in the virtual waiting room when they were trying to make an appointment via their website. Walgreens noticed that the blackout came as they saw a phenomenal interest in related testing and immunization services on their website or web application.
John Standley, the president of Walgreens said in his official statement that the company stays focused on addressing the requirements of its clients and patients. They have done everything to help their online networks during the break-in period. With increased interest for COVID immunizations, testing, and different administrations, notwithstanding the bustling Christmas season, their drug store teams are buckling down each day.
The company asked its clients to show their patience for the business as they on exploring in this ongoing pandemic situation. The organization said it has controlled and administrated almost 55 million COVID-19 immunizations till time and also has conducted around 22 million COVID tests in the country.
In addition to this, the report of the PCR COVID test is made available within the time frame of 24- 48 hours, however, the results of rapid tests are even available under the time frame of 24 hours. Accessibility of the immunization and testing arrangements fluctuates as per the different location as well as the time.
Last week, the company has restricted the limit on the at-home COVID kits for testing in their online and offline stores. It was like a potential warning to their clients in regards to the transitory shortage of the COVID test kits at many locations.
Across Illinois City, the overall demand for the testing kits has been increased due to the large gathering of people in the holiday season and due to the surge in the COVID cases. Long queues have been accounted for at the company stores in and around the Chicago region lately as the at-home tests kits were short on supply.
While trying to address the elevated demand for the kits the Illinois city will expand its local area-based testing site hours beginning in January next year(2022) as reported on Monday by the Illinois governor. Beginning from the 3rd January 2022 the said testing sites will be operational six days a week.
Joe Biden Administration Support
To the potential deficit of the testing kits due to the holiday season, President Joe Biden reported in regards to the issue by announcing that Joe Biden’s administration has bought a half-billion at-home fast COVID tests, which will be caused accessible one month from now and will to be shipped off to Americans via mail.
On Tuesday the president further announced that the tests will be made available to the public for free and will be delivered to their home if the same can be ordered from the administration websites. The pop-up testing locales are additionally being accounted for leading the pack up to the holiday season to meet the surging demand of the public.
