The European Commission has called on member states to accelerate the roll-out of vaccination across the EU so that by March 2021, at least 80% of people over the age of 80, and 80% of health and social care professionals in every member state should be vaccinated.

It says that by summer 2021, member states should have vaccinated a minimum of 70% of the adult population. The communication adopted today, comes two days ahead of a meeting of European leaders on a coordinated response to the Covid-19 crisis.

Meanwhile, the world needs American leadership in the battle against Covid-19, the EU's top diplomat said, urging President-elect Joe Biden to step up after the Trump administration was widely criticised for its slow response to the

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New Jersey vaccine supply to increase 30% over 3 weeks

A vial and a syringe TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey is set to get a 30% increase in the number of coronavirus vaccine doses over the next three weeks, the state's top health official said Wednesday.New Jersey's allotment of vaccines from the federal government will rise from about 100,000 doses a week to 130,000 for three weeks, Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli said during a news conference.The boosted figure comes after President Joe Biden announced Tuesday his administration would increase how much states got by about 16%.Democratic Gov.

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India, China's Covid-19 vaccinations to stretch to late 2022: Study

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White House eyes 200 million more vaccine doses, summer goal

Yesterday and today President Joe Biden and his team of COVID-19 advisors updated their plans to vaccinate all Americans aged 16 and older by the end of summer against COVID-19, an ambitious goal that will require support from Congress, the full power of the Defense Production Act, and the confidence of the American people.

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At least 90,000 more Americans projected to die from COVID-19 in the next 4 weeks, White House warns

WASHINGTON - As many as 90,000 Americans are projected to die from the coronavirus in the next four weeks, the Biden administration warned in its first science briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic, as experts outlined efforts to improve the delivery and injection of COVID-19 vaccines.The hourlong briefing Wednesday by the team charged by President Joe Biden with ending the pandemic, was meant to deliver on his promise of "leveling" with the American people about the state of the outbreak that has already claimed more than 425,000 U.S. lives.

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Biden says he's ‘bringing back the pros’ for virus briefings

WASHINGTON – For nearly a year it was the Trump show. Now President Joe Biden is calling up the nation’s top scientists and public health experts to regularly brief the American public about the pandemic that has claimed more than 425,000 U.S. lives.

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US boosting vaccine deliveries amid complaints of shortages

Answering growing frustration over vaccine shortages, President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. is ramping up deliveries to hard-pressed states over the next three weeks and expects to provide enough doses to vaccinate 300 million Americans by the end of the summer or early fall.

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Seminole County says vaccine shipments decreasing by nearly in half

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – After President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday his administration plans to ramp up COVID-19 vaccine supply and notice given to states about upcoming shipments, a Central Florida county is saying more vaccines are needed.

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Kamala Harris gets second Covid-19 vaccine dose, urges everyone to do likewise

Also Read | How India has become an unequal republicPresident Joe Biden has said the goal of his administration is to vaccinate 100 million Americans in the first 100 days of his presidency.Meanwhile, the White House today said in a press release that the Biden administration is working to purchase additional 200 million more doses of COVID-19 vaccines to reach 600 million doses this summer and vaccinate 300 million people."The Biden-Harris administration is working to purchase an additional 100 million doses of each of the two Food and Drug Administration-authorized vaccines - Pfizer and Moderna," the release said on Tuesday.

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Biden administration to boost coronavirus vaccine purchases amid shortage complaints

coronavirus vaccines to deliver enough to protect 300 million Americans by the end of the summer, as it surges deliveries to states for the next three weeks following complaints of shortages and inconsistent supplies.President Joe Biden announced the surge in deliveries to states Tuesday, along with the news that the federal government is purchasing an additional 100 million doses each of the two approved coronavirus vaccines.

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‘Wartime effort’: Biden boosting vaccine supply to states, buying 200 million more doses

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden spoke to the nation Tuesday about steps his administration is taking to meet his goal of administering 100 million COVID-19 vaccine shots within his first 100 days in office.Biden announced a surge in vaccine deliveries to states, along with the news that the federal government is purchasing an additional 100 million doses each of the two approved coronavirus vaccines.

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Biden to deliver remarks on COVID-19 efforts amid rising confusion surrounding vaccine rollout

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden is set to speak Tuesday afternoon about his COVID-19 plans, as more than 100 million people worldwide and over 25 million Americans have been infected.The president will be speaking from the White House about his administration’s planned COVID-19 response. He's scheduled to deliver the remarks at 4:45 p.m.

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Schumer: Democrats must pass virus aid with or without GOP

WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday that Democrats are preparing to push ahead quickly on President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package even if it means using procedural tools to pass the legislation on their own, leaving Republicans behind.

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Murphy's top message to Biden? Ramp up vaccine production

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy TRENTON, N.J. - The Biden administration should make manufacturing more COVID-19 vaccines its primary focus as it confronts the coronavirus pandemic, New Jersey Gov.

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Vaccine appointments canceled amid confusion over supply

An increasing number of COVID-19 vaccination sites around the U.S. are canceling appointments because of vaccine shortages in a rollout so rife with confusion that even the new CDC director admitted she doesn’t know exactly how many shots are in the pipeline.

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US live events industry offers to help with coronavirus vaccination effort in letter to Joe Biden

coronavirus vaccination effort.In a letter to President Joe Biden today (January 26), the likes of the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA), Live Nation, AEG and others have formally offered their venues, staff, and expertise to the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.The live events industry is in a unique position to help – the pandemic has fully shuttered operations, leaving venues empty and the furloughed crowd-management oriented staff who operate them eager to help out and get back to work.“Since the pandemic shuttered our industry almost a year ago, our buildings and our co-workers have been paused, un-utilised, and struggling,” said Dayna Frank, owner and CEO, First Avenue Productions and Board President of NIVA.“These vaccines are

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President Biden thinks US is on pace for herd immunity in 2021. Here’s what that means

President Joe Biden believes that the U.S. could reach herd immunity by the summer.

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Joe Biden says herd immunity from Covid could be achieved this year

The Indian-Americans driving Biden’s agendaBiden reiterated that he believes the country is in a precarious spot and and that relief is urgently needed, even as he dismissed the possibility of embracing a scaled-down bill to secure passage faster. Among the features of the stimulus plan are a national vaccination program, aid to reopen schools, direct payments of $1,400 to individuals and financial relief for state and local governments.“Time is of the essence," Biden said.

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Biden more bullish on vaccines, open to 1.5M daily shot goal

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden appeared to boost his goal for coronavirus vaccinations in his first 100 days in office, suggesting the nation could soon be injecting 1.5 million shots on an average per day.

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Biden feels confident U.S. will be ‘well on our way’ to herd immunity by summer

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden on Monday appeared to boost his goal for coronavirus vaccinations in his first 100 days in office, suggesting that the nation could soon be vaccinating 1.5 million Americans on average per day.Biden’s hopeful outlook came after signing an executive order to boost government purchases from U.S. manufacturers.Biden added that he expects widespread availability of the vaccines for Americans by spring, with the U.S.

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President Biden to reinstate COVID-19 travel rules

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden on Monday will formally reinstate COVID-19 travel restrictions on non-U.S. travelers from Brazil, Ireland, the United Kingdom and 26 other European countries that allow travel across open borders, according to two White House officials.

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Borders tighten around world as coronavirus curfew fury spills over

Netherlands.The United States was set to join France, Israel and Sweden in pulling up the drawbridge to certain arrivals, with special concern about new strains of the pathogen that originated in Britain and South Africa."It's up to us to show that we are civic-minded," Spaniard Claudio Barraza told AFP upon arrival at Paris's main international airport, after new rules on tests for EU arrivals came into force.The stipulations came as Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador became the latest public figure to test positive for the disease, and New Zealand reported its first community case for more than two months.In Washington, President Joe Biden will on Monday reimpose a ban on most non-US citizens who have been in Britain, Brazil,

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Bill Gates receives Covid-19 vaccine

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US President Joe Biden 'to bring back UK travel ban' to stop Covid variant spreading

The US is set to hit the UK with a travel ban following the discovery of the mutant Kent Covid strain, according to reports.

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US to boost surveillance of new coronavirus variants, CDC head says

Covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics, the new head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.“We are now scaling up both our surveillance of these and our study of these," CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said on “Fox News Sunday." The agency is working with others, including the Defense Department and the Food and Drug Administration, to monitor the variants, she said.Vivek Murthy, President Joe Biden’s nominee for surgeon general, said achieving broad immunity against the coronavirus by the start of the school year in September is “an ambitious goal," and that new strains of the disease will require continued masking, social distancing and better government tracking.“It is going to take a lot of work," Murthy said on ABC’s “This

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Trump administration had no coronavirus vaccine distribution plan: White House

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Lawmaker wants $1,400 stimulus checks reserved for those who get vaccine

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U.S. launches ambitious vaccine plan as new COVID-19 strains spread

U.S. President Joe Biden is pushing on with his plan to get 100 million Americans inoculated for COVID-19 during his first 100 days in office.

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Biden's early approach to virus: Underpromise, overdeliver

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Biden signs executive orders on $15 minimum wage for federal workers, food aid increases

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Biden speaks ahead of signing executive orders on economy

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Biden to target economy in next wave of executive orders

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Walmart expands vaccinations in boost to US Covid-19 program

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Biden ordering stopgap help as talks start on big aid plan

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Biden aims to beef up COVID-19 vaccine distribution, testing

As U.S. President Joe Biden begins his new job, he says he intends on ramping up America’s fight against COVID-19. Jackson Proskow reports on what Biden is asking and mandating.

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Fauci cites ‘liberating feeling’ in pandemic update during 2nd Biden White House press briefing

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Coronavirus: Fauci says vaccines work on ‘mutant’ variants, but there is plan to adjust if needed

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Coronavirus: Biden directs FEMA to open 100 vaccination centres over the next month

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Psaki relinquishes podium to Fauci for pandemic update during 2nd Biden White House press briefing

WASHINGTON - After President Joe Biden signed 10 executive orders Thursday aimed at getting the worsening coronavirus pandemic under control, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, who was scheduled to hold her second daily press conference, relinquished the podium in the White House press briefing room to Dr. Anthony Fauci.Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, summarized the status of the pandemic amid a devastating surge, which has pushed new case counts and death tolls higher than ever before in dozens of states across the U.S.Dr.

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Biden signs 10 executive orders on pandemic, warns things will ‘get worse before they get better’

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden signed 10 executive orders to kick start his national COVID-19 strategy, which includes ramping up vaccinations and testing, reopening schools and businesses and increasing the use of masks. But Biden issued a stark warning to Americans even as he promised that "help is on the way." "Let me be clear: Things are going to continue to get worse before they get better," Biden said.Biden spoke Thursday amid a worsening global pandemic that has now killed more than 400,000 Americans, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. "I understand the despair and frustration of so many Americans and how they’re feeling.

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Biden speaks on COVID-19 before signing 10 pandemic-related executive orders

WASHINGTON (AP) - Deep in the deadliest coronavirus wave and facing worrisome new strains, President Joe Biden will initiate a national COVID-19 strategy to ramp up vaccinations and testing, reopen schools and businesses and increase the use of masks — including a requirement that Americans mask up for travel.Biden also will address inequities in hard-hit minority communities as he signs 10 pandemic-related executive orders on Thursday.Biden has vowed to take far more aggressive measures to contain the virus than his predecessor, starting with stringent adherence to public health guidance.

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Congress poised for quick action on Biden's Pentagon nominee

WASHINGTON – The Democratic-controlled Congress is moving quickly to install retired Gen. Lloyd Austin as President Joe Biden’s secretary of defense, brushing aside concerns about his retirement inside the seven-year window that safeguards civilian leadership of the military.The House is voting Thursday on a waiver that would exempt Austin from the seven-year rule.

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Biden to sign 10 pandemic-related executive orders on Thursday

WASHINGTON (AP) - As the U.S. enters "what may well be the toughest and deadliest period of the virus," President Joe Biden is putting forth a national COVID-19 strategy to ramp up vaccinations and testing, reopen schools and businesses and increase the use of masks — including a requirement that they be worn for travel.Biden also will address inequities in hard-hit minority communities as he signs 10 pandemic-related executive orders on Thursday, his second day in office."We need to ask average Americans to do their part," said Jeff Zients, the White House official directing the national response.

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President Biden wants to require masks for travel

WASHINGTON – As the U.S. enters “what may well be the toughest and deadliest period of the virus,” President Joe Biden is putting forth a national COVID-19 strategy to ramp up vaccinations and testing, reopen schools and businesses and increase the use of masks — including a requirement that they be worn for travel.Biden also will address inequities in hard-hit minority communities as he signs 10 pandemic-related executive orders on Thursday, his second day in office.“We need to ask average Americans to do their part," said Jeff Zients, the White House official directing the national response.

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Joe Biden to sign 10 Covid-19 executive orders including mandatory masks on buses and planes

Joe Biden will today sign 10 executive orders to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, which has killed 400,000 Americans.

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On first full day in WH, Joe Biden to sign 10 executive orders to combat Covid

Washington: President Joe Biden will sign 10 executive orders on Thursday to fight the coronavirus pandemic, including directing that disaster funds be used to help reopen schools and requiring that people wear masks on planes and buses, officials said.Biden, a Democrat who took over from Republican President Donald Trump on Wednesday, has promised a fierce fight against the pandemic that killed 400,000 people in the United States under Trump's watch."We’re entering what may be the toughest and deadliest period of the virus and must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation," the president said in his inauguration speech.One order will require mask-wearing in airports and on certain modes of public transportation,

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Biden puts forth virus strategy, requires mask use to travel

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US Covid-19 deaths top WWII fatalities as Joe Biden warns worst yet to come

Joe Biden warned the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is still to come, as the number of American deaths due to Covid-19 surpassed the country's troop fatalities in World War II.Biden was expected Thursday to unveil his administration's plans to tackle the coronavirus crisis, as he starts his first full day in the White House with America confronting a slew of challenges.Covid-19 cases have surged past 96 million worldwide, fuelled by the emergence of the new strain of the killer virus, including one that was first detected in Britain, and has now spread to over 60 nations, the World Health Organization has said.America remains the worst-hit country, with around a fifth of the two million global coronavirus deaths, and Joe Biden has made

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Biden starts term with COVID actions on masks, support for WHO

The 46th US president, Joe Biden, will make several executive orders today pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic, including issuing a mask mandate on federal grounds, reports CNN.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

70% of population should be vaccinated by summer - European Commission

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