Headlines: Joe Biden declares war on coronavirus in the United States
US President Joe Biden signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, following his inauguration as the 46th President of the United States, United States, January 20, 2021. © REUTERS / Tom Brenner
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Biden unveils the national strategy that Trump was resisting
", headlines the
New York Times on
Friday.
The president on Thursday signed a series of decrees and presidential directives which centralize the authority details the daily.
"
Failure is not an option,
" says Joe Trippi, a Democratic Party strategist in the
USA Today
pages
, "
And it's not just for Biden's presidency that
failure is not an option. option, but for the country.
», He specifies.
"
Our strategy is based on science not politics, on truth not on denial,
" said Joe Biden as he signed the decrees.
From now on, specifies
USA Today
, any person wishing to enter the United States will have to present a negative test and observe a quarantine, the wearing of the mask is obligatory in the federal buildings, the test campaign will be widened.
Joe Biden also pledged that 100 million Americans will be vaccinated within the next 100 days.
Measures which contrast with those taken by Donald Trump, specifies the
New York Times
, and which seem to reassure the adviser to the presidency of the United States on the pandemic, the famous doctor Fauci.
Fauci: a doctor relieved to no longer have to contradict Donald Trump
“
Some comments made me uncomfortable because they were not based on science,
” said Dr. Fauci on Thursday as he made his return to the White House press room.
All smiles on the podium as can be seen in the photo published by the
Washington Post
, the doctor finally seemed in his element.
"
Fauci unleashed
", headlines the daily, proof that the doctor no longer dared to face Donald Trump lately, he who had been excluded from press conferences for months.
"
One of the things we are going to do is to be completely transparent, open and honest,
" he said in particular.
The urgency is of setting, insisted on recalling the principal specialist in infectious diseases of the country, details the
Los Angeles Times
, whereas the country crossed the mark of 400,000 deaths and could well reach 150,000 deaths in February.
In Brazil: Rio definitively cancels its carnival
It is the mayor of Rio, Eduardo Paes, who announced this Thursday the cancellation of the carnival this year, announces
O dia
.
Usually scheduled for February, it had already been rescheduled for July, recalls the daily.
In the pages of
G1
(the free version of
Globo
), the mayor explains that he is fully aware of the importance of this meeting from an economic point of view.
But the health crisis facing the country is not compatible with such an event according to him.
A mayor who still wants to be confident and who hopes that the carnival can be held in 2022, once the entire population is vaccinated.
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