Senator Schumer wants the test kits to be available at community health centers and mobile sites across the state.
He wants the Department of Health and Human Services to set aside funds to cover the costs.
"So instead of saying, go to your pharmacy, pay for it and maybe your insurance company will reimburse you, give them to community health centers, put them out on mobile vans, and let people get the tests for free," Schumer said. "We have plenty of these tests."
The senator added that already passed COVID relief bills could foot the cost.
Meanwhile, the White House is expected to release a plan sometime next month.
Here are more of today's COVID-19 headlines:
Sen. Gillibrand, Asian American community leaders encourage vaccine
Following the discovery of the omicron variant in New York City, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand joined U.S. Representative Nydia Velázquez, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, and community leaders at Hamilton-Madison House, a leading non-profit serving Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, to encourage vaccination against COVID-19 and to discuss issues facing the AAPI community.
Senator Gillibrand toured Hamilton-Madison House's Naturally Occurring Retirement Community and child care facility and met with community members.
NYC Vaccine Mandate
A vaccine mandate for all private-sector employers across the board in NYC will go into effect December 27, Mayor de Blasio announced on Monday. He called it a proactive, "First in the nation measure."
New US travel rules: What you need to know about the changes prompted by omicron
Just when we thought US travel rules were starting to stabilize, along comes omicron.
The dominoes fell quickly after South African health authorities informed the world of their discovery of the omicron variant of the coronavirus in late November.
The Biden administration rolled out controversial travel bans on arrivals from eight nations in southern Africa. Travelers found themselves unexpectedly stranded. And now US officials are tightening travel regulations again.
Early reports on COVID-19 omicron variant encouraging, Fauci says
U.S. health officials said Sunday that while the omicron variant of the coronavirus is rapidly spreading throughout the country, early indications suggest it may be less dangerous than delta, which continues to drive a surge of hospitalizations.
President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, told CNN's "State of the Union" that scientists need more information before drawing conclusions about omicron's severity.
Tri-State omicron case count up to 10 as hospitals strain under delta surge
So far, there's been a total of 10 confirmed cases in the Tri-State area including eight in New York, one in New Jersey, and one in Connecticut.
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