Expansion of target audience for all adults from May 1st to April 19th
California to lift blockades to normalize on June 15
U.S. President Joe Biden (center) visited the Corona 19 vaccination center at Virginia Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia on the 6th. Alexandria=AP Yonhap News
US President Joe Biden announced on the 6th (local time) that he would increase the vaccination rate for a novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) by another two weeks. By the end of May, most adults in the United States are planning to complete the first vaccination.
President Biden visited the corona19 vaccination site in Virginia near Washington on that day and returned to the White House to announce the amendment to the vaccination plan. The main point of the announcement is that the schedule of expanding the number of targets so that anyone 16 years of age or older can receive the Corona 19 vaccine from May 1st to April 19th.
President Biden said, “An average of 3 million vaccinations per day is given, and more than 20 million vaccinations per week.” In fact, on the 3rd, 4.84 million people in the United States were vaccinated against Corona 19. In this way, President Biden emphasized that he would achieve’independence from Corona 19′ on the 4th of July.
As of this afternoon, 18.3 million people in the United States completed more than one vaccine vaccination against Corona 19. The number of inoculations reached 166.9 million doses (for one dose). It is 32.6% of the total US population. In particular, the number of Americans who received more than two vaccinations was 63 million, or 19.0%. With the spread of Corona 19 damage in the United States, the state of California, which first entered into a blockade, announced today that it will take normalization measures on June 15.
However, it was also accompanied by a warning that the tension should not be slowed down. President Biden said, “The fight is not over yet,” and “we haven’t reached the finish line.” He stressed that it is necessary to comply with the quarantine guidelines as the number of new confirmed cases is increasing due to the COVID-19 mutation.
Washington= Jeong Won Correspondent [email protected]
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