"Next week we'll announce how we are making high-quality masks available to the American people, for free."
Biden also said he'd instructed the administration to acquire and ready five hundred million COVID-19 tests.
The order comes on top of another 500 million tests that the White House pledged before the Christmas holiday would be available to Americans this month.
A White House official said earlier on Thursday the tests would be free for American consumers and that the White House would share more details about their distribution at a later date. Details about the website that will have information on the first tranche of 500 million tests will be available on Friday, the official said.
