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US President Joe Biden: The USA is the country with the most corona deaths worldwide
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In the fight against the corona pandemic, Joe Biden's US government wants to enforce extensive vaccination and testing requirements from January 4th.
Now, however, the US president has suffered a legal setback.
A federal appeals court in New Orleans on Saturday suspended the implementation of a corresponding government order in Washington.
Employees of companies with more than 100 employees and certain employees in the healthcare sector would be affected.
The government wants employers to require these more than 100 million workers to be vaccinated against the coronavirus or weekly negative tests from January 4.
Biden's opponents celebrate an "important victory"
The court argued that there was reason to believe that the measures had "serious legal and constitutional problems".
The judges announced an accelerated review of the order before a final decision, against which companies and Republican-ruled states, among others, had sued.
Plaintiff Louisiana attorney general Jeff Landry called the court order "an important victory."
This will stop the "attack on private companies" by the Democrat Biden.
The vaccination requirements announced a few days ago are central components of the measures with which the Biden government wants to increase the vaccination rate and defeat the pandemic.
The US vaccination campaign is making slow progress.
So far, a good 58 percent of the population of around 330 million people have been fully vaccinated.
Biden had announced the new vaccination requirements in September in view of a sharp increase in corona infections over the summer.
This was then implemented a few days ago with orders from the Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of Health.
Biden sees vaccinations as the best way out of the pandemic.
The opposition Republicans are facing considerable resistance to vaccination requirements for the economy.
The USA is the country with the most corona deaths worldwide.
The 750,000 death mark was only exceeded on Wednesday.
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