Biden warns about delaying or stopping Corona vaccination

Wilmington: US President-elect Joe Biden warned Tuesday that Congress’s failure to quickly reach consensus on the financial front to combat the epidemic will delay and could halt the emerging coronavirus vaccination campaign.

Biden said: “Without urgent action by Congress this month … there is a real possibility that these efforts will be delayed and stopped after a first vaccination campaign.”

Biden, 78, arrived during his presentation by Javier Becera, who elected him to be the Minister of Health of his government, in addition to the members of the team that will be tasked with fighting the epidemic when he takes office on 20 January.

In the first 100 days of his term, Biden will order that federal headquarters, trains, planes and buses that provide transportation between the states of the United States be muzzled, and he will urge the governors of those states to follow his example.

During the same time period, he promised to vaccinate 100 million Americans through “the most effective vaccination campaign in American history.”

For his part, the outgoing president, Donald Trump, signed a decree on Tuesday that gives priority to the United States in receiving vaccines before exporting them, noting that the country may lack adequate doses after the first phase of vaccination.

He explained that the decree stipulates that “the US government gives priority to vaccinating US citizens before shipping vaccines to other countries,” noting that the Pfizer / Bionic Alliance, which is expected to obtain a license for a vaccine in the coming days, announced that the number of doses to be delivered in the United States will not exceed one hundred. Million.

Despite months of negotiations, Republicans and Democrats failed to agree on a new plan to fight the epidemic. Congressional leaders expect to vote on the measures by the end of next week.

And if the Senate approves the nomination of the 62-year-old Becera, who is currently the attorney general in California, he will be the first Latin American to assume the Ministry of Health.