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Truckers Protest in Canada; Free Tests in Demand: Virus Update

People wear masks while exercising at a gym in San Francisco.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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About 60 million households in the U.S. have ordered at-home Covid-19 tests from the federal government after President Joe Biden made them available for free to ease shortages fueled by the omicron variant.

The U.S. and Canadian governments should reinstate a vaccine exemption for cross-border truckers to ease supply chain snarls, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said as a protest convoy arrived in the Canadian capital.