President Joe Biden has officially ended the national health emergency declared due to Covid, under which, for more than three years, exceptional support has been provided to the health system in a country that has recorded more than a million deaths due to the Corona virus.
The White House said Biden had signed into law a law passed by Congress earlier “ending the national emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic.”“.
What does resolution mean?
- The decision ends generous funding for Covid tests, vaccines and other emergency measures, in an effort to free the world’s largest economy from the grip of the global pandemic..
- However, ambiguity still surrounds the situation on the border with Mexico, where a procedure related to the state of emergency and bearing the name “Article 42” is being implemented to strictly accept unregistered arrivals across the southern border..
- With the end of the effects of the state of emergency, the US administration finds itself forced to adopt a new legal mechanism if it wants to avoid possible political damage that may result from the new flows of immigrants and asylum seekers..
- A senior White House official told AFP that the use of “Section 42 is expected to expire on May 11“.
And although the United States is now officially turning its back on the global pandemic, the Biden administration has announced that it is working on a next-generation vaccine and other measures to combat any future variant of Covid..
“The NextGen project will accelerate and simplify the rapid development of next-generation vaccines and therapeutics through public-private collaboration,” the official added.“.
He indicated that funding of regarding $5 billion is available to “help promote scientific progress” and “overcome the rapid development of the virus that causes Covid-19”.“.
