United States: declaration of emergency by covid-19 extends until spring

The government of USA extended this Friday emergency declaration due to the pandemic covid-19 until the spring of 2023 to respond to a hypothetical increase in cases during the months of winter.

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This Friday was the last day available to the Administration that directs Joe Biden to notify the end of the emergency declaration, something that, since it did not occur, automatically extends it until, at least, April of the following year.

The pandemic emergency declaration It has been in force since January 2020.

At the end of September, the secretary of US Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra, He said that although the country has made significant progress in its fight against covid-19 compared to last year, the pandemic is not over yet.

“Between 300 and 400 people a day die from covid. we’re not over it”he told a group of reporters on a visit to a vaccination center in Washington.

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The comments of the person in charge of the Health portfolio thus qualified the statements that the US president, Joe Bidenhad previously given to CBS, where he assured that “the pandemic is over”.

“What the president said is what everyone feels, that we are much better now” than a year ago, Becerra assured. However, Biden’s statement already had an echo among Republicans in the Congresswho seek to lift the declaration of national emergency.

A group of 17 legislators from the House of Representatives wrote a letter asking Biden kill the measure and a Republican senator introduced a resolution to have the High camera vote on the same.

“The federal government has spent about ten trillion dollars, which has resulted in an economic crisis”the legislators wrote in the letter.

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Becerra dismissed the idea of ​​now raising the emergency declaration and said that in order to make a decision, one must wait for the scientific community to pronounce itself.

“Let’s wait for scientists give us a guide and tell us where we stand”he assured.

Between August and September 2022, The US reported an average of 356 daily deaths from covid-19and the disease it causes The virus is the third cause of death in the countryafter cancer and heart disease.

Source: EFE

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