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House approves $ 2000 COVID-19 stimulus check
President Donald Trump has also demanded a તપાસ 2,000 stimulus investigation.
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In the headlines:
– U.S. It will not come close to vaccinating 20 million people by January 1, as many experts predicted, but Dr. Ant. Anthony Fawcett believes next month’s “acceleration” will help the nation move closer to a rollout estimate. But Fonseca said in an interview with CNN that the second growth after the holidays means “we just assume (the epidemic) is going to get worse.”
– The House voted Monday to increase the COVID-19 relief stimulus check from $ 600 to $ 2,000, as President Donald Trump demanded when President Donald Trump signed the law into law on Sunday. The move will now move to a GOP-controlled Senate where its future remains highly uncertain. It is not clear when the first investigation will come out, but the bill clarifies that the investigation must be sent after Jan. 15.
Transition Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband Douglas Amhoff are due to receive the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday, transition officials said. CNN reports that Harris is expected to be vaccinated live on camera.
Ge coronavirus hospital admissions in Georgia are on the rise, with health officials reporting more than 4,000 hospital admissions Monday. Georgia is now in the top 20 for most new cases per capita in the last 14 days due to a decline in infection rates in the Midwest and an increase in the South.
P Spain has surpassed the number of 50,000 while the 14-day case rate has dropped among the country’s 100,000 inhabitants. The New York Times reports that Health Minister Salvador Ila announced Monday that the country plans to collect and share information with residents of European Union countries who decide not to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
– California Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Galli will announce Tuesday that the stay-at-home order will be extended for another three weeks, state Gavin News reported Monday.
📈 Today’s number: U.S. There are more than 19.3 million confirmed coronavirus cases and 334,800 people die, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Global average: more than 81.2 million cases and 1.77 Million deaths.
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When the first vaccine for the virus gained emergency power this month, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar estimated that 20 million people – mostly healthcare workers – could be vaccinated by the end of the year. The rate will increase in early 2021 as more vaccines are introduced, Azar and other experts said.
So far, the numbers are well below expectations. The nation’s leading infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted on Tuesday that only a few million vaccinations have been given so far.
“I believe that as soon as January comes, we will see an increase in momentum,” which allows the country to catch a planned rollout, Foi told CNN. He said he still hopes that by spring or summer, “anyone and anyone who wants to be vaccinated can be vaccinated.”
Due to the closure of many testing centers for the holidays, the U.S. It performed 1.5 million fewer COVID-19 tests per week compared to the week ended Monday, according to U.S.A. Today U.S. Covid tracking project demonstrates data analysis.
Overall, fewer tests have been performed in 42 states. In severely affected Tennessee, the total number of tests was more than half what it was a week ago. But the rate of those positive tests has risen from about 19.2% to 21.4%. On the other side of the scale, Washington State increased testing by a third compared to a week earlier in Washington state, but its positive testing rate increased anyway.
– Mike Stukka
Many families believe that even though it has been declared by most schools that they are not needed due to the epidemic, students who find a way to take certified tests will have the edge of elite college admission. In the headline after headline, students who travel long distances to take SAT or competitor test are given documents by ACT (document), as individuals are increasingly unavailable at the place of giving the test. In the Facebook group at Paging for a College Ledge 101, parents were asked how “optional” the tests really are.
“I think parents believe in test-alternative colleges when they approach that students without test scores will be competitive applicants,” said Debbie Schwartz, founder and administrator of the Facebook group. Was. “But there are still doubts as to whether students with test scores will benefit on a student without a test score.” Read more here.
– Chris Quintana
World stocks rose on Tuesday with Japan’s Nikkei 225 benchmark after President Donald Trump signed a 900 900 billion economic aid package. US stocks started the second week of 2020 with a further rebound on Monday, hitting a record high for key US indices. There was widespread boom as investors welcomed the package, which also includes $ 1.4 trillion to fund government agencies, avoiding a federal government shutdown, which would have started on Tuesday.
Recent gains add to the strong, record-breaking run for the stock market in recent weeks amid cautious optimism that coronavirus vaccination will pave the way for the economy to escape the grip of the epidemic in the coming months.
Data from Johns Hopkins University shows that December 25 is when the number of deaths from coronavirus in April passed 60,738 deaths. With several days left in December, the record now stands at 64,953 as of Sunday. On average, it is the equivalent of a person dying every 36 seconds in the United States.
December has already been a record month for new cases, though November was more than twice as bad as the other month. On December 22, the U.S. broke the November record of 4.4 million cases, and now there are 5,533,230 cases reported in December. The number of records from previous surgeries for the entire month of July was 1.9 million; In just 10 days, the U.S.
– Mike Stukka
Contributing: The Associated Press
