Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Biden Raises Daily Vaccination Target And Extends Travel Bans

The New York Times: Biden Raises Daily Vaccination Target And Extends Travel Bans
President Biden, under pressure to speed up the pace of coronavirus vaccination, said on Monday that he was now aiming for the United States to administer 1.5 million vaccine doses a day — a goal that is 50 percent higher than his initial target but one that the nation already appears on track to meet. The president made his comments just hours after he banned travel by noncitizens into the United States from South Africa because of concern about a coronavirus variant spreading in that country, and moved to extend similar bans imposed by his predecessor on travel from Brazil, Europe and Britain. Those bans were set to expire on Tuesday. (Stolberg, 1/25)

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