Time.news – “Although there is still a way to go, we have made incredible progress” against Covid-19. Thus President Joe Biden, speaking in the White House. “If you are vaccinated, you can do more things and this is one more reason to get immunized,” said the president of the United States, stressing how the new guidelines of the US health authorities, the Centers for disease control and prevention, provide outdoors, vaccine recipients should not wear a mask. It remains the obligation to cover up on very crowded occasions, even outdoors.
The lifting of some restrictions was announced after more than half of the American population received at least one dose. New infections have suffered a decline of 16% (the most marked since February) last week and 140 million people have been given a dose (over 215 million vaccines administered in Biden’s first 100 days at the White House).
“We have made incredible progress thanks to you,” Biden noted, “cases have dropped dramatically.” Deaths among the elderly fell by 80% as the vaccination campaign progressed. “The dissemination of these guidelines – continued the head of the White House – is the first step to allow fully vaccinated Americans to stop the activities interrupted due to the pandemic”.
“We are sending all the necessary help to India” to fight the pandemic, the president then said, reiterating that not only equipment but also vaccines will be sent to India, the latter with a timing yet to be defined.
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