[국제]”Securing a vaccine against US adults by the end of May” … eased containment measures

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U.S. President Joe Biden has decided to secure a COVID-19 vaccine that can be vaccinated by all U.S. adults by the end of May, and in order to do so, the Defense Goods Act has also been in effect.

The United States, which recently approved three types of Corona 19 vaccines, including the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, plans to gradually ease the corona containment measures to save the economy as well.

Reporter Chae Moon-seok on the press.

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In the United States, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was supplied this week following Modena and Pfizer vaccines.

That’s 18 million doses of vaccines distributed this week by the three companies.

Considering that when President Biden took office last January, the weekly supply was 8.6 million times, the unit period vaccine supply more than doubled in less than a month.

President Biden says he is on track to supply enough of the COVID-19 vaccine.

[조 바이든 / 미국 대통령 : 이제 백신 공급이 충분해졌습니다. 5월 말까지 미국의 모든 성인이 접종할 수 있는 백신을 확보하게 됐습니다. 중요한 발전입니다.]

It was two months ahead of the promise made three weeks ago.

To accelerate vaccine production, President Biden also decided to invoke the Defense Goods Act to force rival Merck to produce Johnson & Johnson vaccines.

In two and a half months after vaccination began, the number of confirmed cases per day fell from 200,000 to 50,000, and corona containment measures in each state began to ease.

[그레천 위트머 / 미시간 주지사 : 이제부터 식당과 술집의 손님 제한을 현재의 25%에서 50%로 늘리겠습니다. 또 요양원 방문도 허용하기로 했습니다.]

[그레그 애버트 / 텍사스 주지사 : 이제 텍사스주 전역에서 시행했던 마스크 착용 의무 조치를 해제합니다. 이 조치가 해제됐다 해도 개인적으로 책임있게 행동하는 걸 기억하십시오]

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will soon issue a recommendation that people who received the COVID-19 vaccine may be consumed in the home.

The atmosphere of sea ice from vaccination is expanding throughout the United States.

This is Moonseok Chae, YTN.

[저작권자(c) YTN & YTN plus 무단전재 및 재배포 금지]