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Biden to Call for More Mandates for Regular COVID-19 Testing and Vaccines for Teachers and Students

2021-09-09T14:03:24.511Z


The president will explain this afternoon the government's six-pillar plan to contain the pandemic in the country, which includes boosting booster doses, keeping schools open and requiring the use of masks.


President Joe Biden will unveil his new government strategy on Thursday to boost immunization against COVID-19 and curb the spread of the delta variant, which includes asking for more vaccine mandates from the private sector and regular testing of teachers and students. 

Biden is expected to announce a

vaccination requirement for all

federal

workers

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The rule would also extend to employees of contractors doing business with the federal government, a source familiar with the plan told NBC News. 

In doing so, the president will increase pressure on those who have not yet been immunized against COVID-19, at a critical time in the pandemic in which the virus is killing thousands of people each week and jeopardizing the economic recovery. from the country.

In his speech this Thursday, scheduled at 5 pm, Biden plans to detail a six-pillar plan to contain the pandemic in the country, where 27% of the population over 12 years old - who meet the requirements to receive the vaccine - No dose has yet been set, according to official data.

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The pillars that Biden will talk about include vaccinating those who have not yet done so, promoting booster doses for those who have already received the full regimen,

keeping schools open,

increasing testing and requiring the use of masks, in addition to empowering economic recovery and improve care for patients who are infected, according to the television network CNN.



The president will also pressure private companies to require vaccination tests for their employees, as the federal government and several corporations have already done, according to CNN.

The Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Indian Health Service and the National Institutes of Health have already said they will require vaccination for their 2.5 million employees.

53.3% of Americans have received the full schedule of vaccines against the coronavirus, including 62.4% of those over 12 years of age, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, for its acronym in English).



The expansion of the delta variant has returned a gloomy outlook to the United States, the country with the most deaths from COVID-19 in the world, whose daily average number of cases again exceeded 150,000 last week for the first time since January, which has saturated hospitals and causes more than 1,000 deaths a day.

[Most of the 100,000 people currently hospitalized for COVID-19 in the US were not vaccinated]

The Democratic president also plans to convene a global summit to contain the pandemic and increase the supply of vaccines to developing countries, The Washington Post reported.

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The summit would be held during the week of high-level debates of the UN General Assembly, which begins on September 21, according to the newspaper, which cites three sources familiar with the White House plans.



Biden could make the announcement during the speech he will give this Thursday to detail his strategy against the delta variant in the United States, although it is also possible that the White House will confirm the information before that event, according to the newspaper.



A senior official, who requested anonymity, told the Post that Biden wants to have a "chance to speak with his counterparts" about the pandemic "during General Assembly week."

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The White House has not yet confirmed whether Biden will travel to New York to give his first speech to the United Nations Assembly on the 21st, nor what his agenda could be beyond that speech.



In August, the US mission to the UN encouraged the leaders of other countries not to travel in person to New York and to consider giving their speeches online, due to the expansion of the delta variant and the rise of infections in the United States.



The Biden administration has so far donated more than 140 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to 90 countries, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said at her daily press conference on Wednesday.

"We know that increased vaccination will stop the spread of the pandemic, control it and return people to normal life. That is our goal. So we want to be specific about what we want to achieve," he said.

However, experts have warned that more efforts are needed to boost vaccination in developing areas, and the COVAX program of the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized that it will not be able to deliver this year the 2 billion doses that had been projected, since it will only have 1,400 million.

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"What we need is an event that forces countries to commit to clear objectives and the actions necessary to achieve them," Gary Edson, president of the COVID Collaborative, one of the organizations that convened the summit, told the Post.

"In my experience, whether it's HIV, Ebola or coronavirus, nothing important happens without the leadership of the United States, [although] other countries must also step forward," he concluded.

Source: telemundo

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