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Negotiations on the aid package stall

2020-08-13T11:16:23.848Z


The president assured that a new agreement between the White House and the Democrats "is not going to happen", despite the fact that he previously suggested that it was open to a new round of negotiations.


The United States has been facing a serious health crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic for months. The country has detected more than 5,200,000 confirmed infections and has registered more than 166,000 deaths from COVID-19, according to the most recent statistics.

These are the main news for this Thursday, August 13, 2020:

  • Negotiations on the aid package stall. Trump assures that a new agreement between the White House and the democrats "is not going to happen"
  • Experts Estimate More Than One Million Americans File For Unemployment Assistance Amid Economic Uncertainty
  • Florida sheriff bans face masks from his officers
  • Mexico and Argentina will produce the AstraZeneca and Oxford vaccine
  • The White House recommends the use of a mask in schools, although it does not require the use of them

Negotiations on the aid package stall. Trump assures that a new agreement between the White House and the democrats "is not going to happen"

The president, Donald Trump, assured this Wednesday that a new agreement between the White House and the Democrats "is not going to happen", despite the fact that days before he suggested that it was open to a new round of negotiations.

"The bill is not going to happen because he does not want to talk about it, because we can not give them the kind of ridiculous things they want, which have nothing to do with the virus in China," said the president at the White House on Wednesday night, using a term criticized as racially insensitive.

People waiting for financial aid from the coronavirus will have to wait until September, with the House and Senate virtually closed.

Negotiations on a new aid package for the virus are practically closed. The White House and congressional leaders remain far apart in terms of size, scope and focus to help households, reopen schools and launch a national strategy to contain the virus.

President Donald Trump's top negotiator, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, tried to revive the stalled talks Wednesday, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer ruled out the proposal, saying the Trump administration continues to refuse to comply with them. Republicans in Congress are largely shelving the talks.

"The White House is not moving," Pelosi and Schumer said in a joint statement.

Trump assured that the Democrats "are holding the American people hostage."

Everything indicates that the talks will not be fully resumed until Congress resumes in September, despite the growing death toll, which exceeds 166,000 in the country, and more than 5 million people infected.

Democrats want to restore the extra $ 600 until the end of the year while Republicans want to reduce it to $ 200 per week.

Trump claimed that the weekly payment to the unemployed would be $ 400, which was already down from the $ 600 that was initially given to more than 25 million people.

When the president signed the order, he clarified that the states should contribute 25% of those funds.

However, advisers to the president acknowledged on Tuesday that the order does not oblige the states to increase the benefits they already provide by that percentage, so the benefit signed by Trump only guarantees a maximum of $ 300.

With information from AP and The Washington Post.

Experts Estimate More Than One Million Americans File For Unemployment Assistance Amid Economic Uncertainty

Economists estimate that about 1.25 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week.

This would represent a slight increase from the previous week and is because unemployed Americans are getting by without the extra $ 600 federal weekly benefit that began during the pandemic but ended in July.

Unemployment fell to 10.2% in July, down from 11.1% in June. But this incipient economic recovery has been uneven, there has been an increase in hiring in some industries and a stagnation in others.

With information from USA TODAY.

Florida sheriff bans face masks from his officers

A sheriff in central Florida says his deputies will not be allowed to wear masks except under certain conditions, nor will visitors to the office.

Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods assured staff in an email that he had weighed both sides of the issue amid the current coronavirus pandemic.

"I can already hear the whining and to let you know that I did not make this decision easily and have weighed it over the past two weeks," Woods said in the message earlier this week.

"We can debate and argue all day about why and why not. The fact is, the number of professionals who say why we should, I can find exactly the same number of professionals who say why we shouldn't." added.

But in July, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advised Americans to wear face masks.

On Wednesday, Florida reported 213 new deaths from coronavirus. That brought the total death toll to 8,898 and the average daily death rate in the past week to 164. That's less than the state's maximum daily death rate of 185 a week ago. The peak rate for New York, a state with a comparable population, was more than 760 in mid-April.

Also Wednesday, more than 8,100 new infections were reported in Florida, for a total of about 550,000 known cases in the state since the start of the pandemic.

The number of people treated in Florida hospitals for the virus continued a three-week downward trend, standing at 6,538 as of late Wednesday morning, down from highs of more than 9,500. .

Woods, the Marion County Sheriff, added that exceptions will be made to his ban on the use of masks for deputies in jails, schools, courthouses, hospitals, nursing homes and when it comes to someone who is older or has COVID- 19. In these situations, the mask must be removed when orders or commands are given to comply.

With information from AP.

Mexico and Argentina will produce the AstraZeneca and Oxford vaccine

The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, announced this Wednesday that his country, together with Mexico, will produce for Latin America the coronavirus vaccine developed by the AstraZeneca laboratory in collaboration with the British University of Oxford.

"We hope as soon as possible to start the production process," said Fernández at a press conference, who minutes later contacted his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

The Argentine president stressed that this step will allow Latin American countries to access the vaccine at affordable prices, at a cost of between $ 3 and $ 4 per dose.

"It is great news that Mexico and Argentina are the benchmarks for the production of the vaccine and that we can thus bring a solution to the continent," stressed the Argentine president.

The Mexican Slim Foundation will finance part of the production to produce between 150 and 250 million doses destined for all Latin American countries, with the exception of Brazil.

The vaccine, which is currently in phase 3 of development, will be available for the first half of 2021 and will be distributed "equitably" among Latin American countries whose governments demand it.

"Latin American production will be in charge of Argentina and Mexico and that will allow timely and sufficient access to the potential vaccine for all countries in the region," said Fernández.

With information from Efe.

The White House recommends the use of a mask in schools, although it does not require the use of them

President Donald Trump announced eight new recommendations for schools on Wednesday. It is not clear who developed the guidelines - the seal in the graphic is the presidential seal; he referred to them as his Administration, not the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The White House list of recommendations are basic hygiene tips, they do not indicate what to do in the event of new cases of coronavirus in schools. Although it echoes what the CDC included in its guidelines for reopening schools.

The recommendations encourage the use of face masks, but do not require it. They also "require students, teachers and staff to socially distance themselves from high-risk individuals," although it is unclear how schools will do this.

Advisor to President Kellyanne Conway assured that despite the resources the federal government will provide, the decision to reopen schools will still have to be made at the local level.

"We are the federal government. We do not tell school districts what to do. We are providing guidance and resources," Conway said.

The president also assured that his government will provide schools "up to 125 million reusable masks to various school districts across the country."

With information from CNN.

Source: telemundo

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