Joe Biden called not to lower our guard, to test and vaccinate the population. Cases are rising again in the country.
The White House said Thursday that more than 1 million people have died in the United States from the virus. coronavirusand President Joe Biden called not to lower our guard, to test and vaccinate the population and treat those infected.
“Today we reach a tragic milestone: one million American lives lost to COVID-19,” Biden said in a statement, as the United States, first country to exceed one million deaths by Covid-18, faces a new increase in cases.
“We must remain vigilant in the face of this pandemic and do everything we can to save as many lives as possible, just as we have done with more tests, vaccines and treatments than ever before,” Biden added.
Photo from May 2020, at the worst moment of the pandemic in the United States. Photo: Johannes Eisele / AFP
After several months of remission of the coronavirus in the most mourning nation in the world due to the pandemic that began in China at the end of 2019, ahead of Brazil, India and Russia, the United States has been registering for a month a daily increase in cases.
Fourth dose, only for people over 50
The increase occurs in a context in which the mask is no longer mandatory, although indoor use is recommendedand in which a fourth dose of the vaccine is available only for those over 50 years of age.
“An million empty chairs around the table. Each of them is an irreplaceable loss. Each one leaves behind a family, a community and a nation forever changed by this pandemic,” Trump said.
“Jill and I pray for each one of them,” he added, referring to his wife and first lady, the Europa Press news agency reported.
For a month, covid cases have risen again in the US. Photo: Mark Felix / AFP
Subvariants of Omicron
The rebound in infections is due to subvariants of Ómicron, more communicable than the previous strains although its effects seem less serious, in a country where the 66% of the population is vaccinated -90% in the case of those over 65 years of age.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the figures of the member countries compiled by the World Health Organization (WHO) give a total of 5.4 million deaths from Covid-19 in these two years.
But the WHO said last Thursday that the pandemic caused between 13 and 17 million deaths worldwide, from January 2020 to December 2021.
This is triple the total of the official balancesshowing the devastation of the worst pandemic experienced on the planet in a century.
world summit
Biden will ask for a renewed international commitment to confront the covid by convening a second virtual summit on the pandemic and will evoke the “tragic milestone” of the United States with the million deaths.
“As a nation, we must not become indifferent to such pain,” Biden said in a statement Thursday. “In order to heal, we must remember. We must remain vigilant in the face of this pandemic and do everything we can to save as many lives as possible.”
The president asked Congress to provide more funds for tests, vaccines and treatmentssomething lawmakers have been reluctant to pass until now.
The lack of funds _ Biden has requested an additional $22.5 billion that he sees as crucial _ is a reflection of the will that falters in the country and jeopardizes the global response to the pandemic.
Eight months after the first summit, in which he announced the ambitious promise to donate 1.2 billion vaccines to the world, the sense of urgency for the United States and other countries to respond it disappears.
He has the drive to distribute vaccines and treatments has diminishedwhile the most infectious variants are increasing and millions of people in the world are not immunized.
Source: EFE and Associated Press
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