• Usa, Delta variant cases increase.

    Travel restrictions remain

  • The European Union surpasses the US: more vaccinated with the first dose

  • Covid, in the US over 20,000 new cases for 4 consecutive days

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July 29, 2021 The US vaccine rush has slowed too much and President Joe Biden is calling on US state and local governments to incentivize vaccinations by paying $ 100 to all newly vaccinated.



The funds would be drawn from the 1.9 trillion of the American Rescue Plan. This was announced by the American Treasury.



A similar measure has already been adopted by the city of New York on the initiative of Mayor Bill de Blasio. 




Vaccine requirement for federal workers

Joe Biden launches the hard line in the hope of blocking the surge in coronavirus cases also in the US linked above all to the delta variant. Thus, after the reversal of the use of masks a few days ago, the president is calling for mandatory vaccination for federal employees, many of whom have been at home for over a year due to the pandemic. Those who refuse to immunize to continue working will be forced to undergo regular anti-covid tests, respect social distancing and wear nose and mouth protection, as well as being excluded from most travel and work missions.



The crackdown on the White House is dictated by an increasingly alarming picture: according to the latest data from the World Health Organization, infections in the United States increased in 7 days by more than 130%, registering in the week ending 25 July over 500 thousand new cases.



The vaccination campaign, on the other hand, is at a standstill, with Europe now overtaking the United States both in the number of doses administered per 100 people and in the number of people who have received at least one dose.  



However, the controversy, carried out by experts and observers who accuse the federal health authorities of not having published them yet, arises precisely on the new scientific data that would show the danger of the delta variant and which are at the basis of the new squeeze on masks and vaccines, however, mounts the controversy, carried out by experts and observers who accuse the federal health authorities of not having published them yet.



According to sources cited by the Washington Post, this information will be released soon, and it would be wrist-shaking numbers, which would justify the sudden turnaround of the Biden administration. figures and percentages that, it is explained, compare the contagions from the delta variant between vaccinated and unvaccinated.