The biggest financial aid package since the Great Depression, the bill passed by House of Representatives seeks to pull the nation out from the pandemic
President Joe Biden speaks at an event in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus. Pic/AP/PTI
China to work with WHO in tracing virus origin
China is willing to continue working with the World Health Organization (WHO) on tracing the origin of COVID-19, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said. Li said China had maintained communication with the WHO and provided the WHO mission support during their work in China concerning the origins of the virus, stressing that the Chinese side has acted in a fact-based manner and with an open, transparent and cooperative approach, the Xinhua news agency reported.
‘Will order 100 million doses of J&J vaccine’
US President Joe Biden has said that his administration will order another 100 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. The planned purchase would bring the country’s total vaccine order to 800 million doses. “On Saturday, we hit a record of 2.9 million vaccinations in one day in America,” Biden said on Wednesday, Xinhua news agency reported.
Denmark halts AstraZeneca use
The health authorities in Denmark said they are temporarily suspending the use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine as a precautionary measure after some patients developed blood clots since receiving the jab, including one who died, digital news publisher The Local reported. But it cautiously added that “it has not been determined, at the time being, that there is a link between the vaccine and the blood clots”.
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