World News for Students of English

23-11-2020 07:00

The US organization that approves new drugs has approved the first COVID-19 testing kit. People will use the kit at home, and they will test themselves for COVID-19.

People will use a special stick that is called a swab. There is a piece of cotton at the end of the stick, and people will put the stick in their noses. They will know the result within 30 minutes. The test will cost around $50, and people will be able to buy it in drugstores in Spring 2021.

There have been many new cases of COVID-19 in the US. Some companies said that they would make a COVID-19 vaccine soon. But it is still very important to test as many people as possible. If people buy the test, they will not have to stand in long lines to get tested and wait several days for a result.

Difficult words: kit (a group of things that belong together and people use them for a specific activity or task), stick (a long thin piece of wood), cotton (soft white material that people use to make clothes and other things), case (a situation when a person gets sick), vaccine (a medicine that helps a person get less sick from a disease).

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