signs more decrees and joins WHO’s efforts

Joe Biden’s first day on the job as President of the United States will be a anti-coronavirus day. The president fully intends to fulfill his main campaign promise to 100%, by taking the pandemic by the horns. This Thursday, he plans to sign more decrees in this regard. And he has already contacted his advisor Anthony Fauci with the dome of who.

The day will begin with a virtual church service for the presidential inauguration, but will quickly turn to action focused on fighting the pandemic.

Biden and his vice Kamala Harris will be briefed by members of the Covid team. And the signing of new decrees is expected.

Biden will sign 10 executive orders to promote the fight against Covid, which has claimed 400,000 lives in the United States.

Vaccination will be speeded up and testing will be increased. Emergency legislation will be used to increase production essentials like masks.

Breaking with former President Donald Trump, the policy emphasizes a national strategy rather than relying on states to decide what is best.

In his opening speech, Biden warned that the coronavirus pandemic in the United States was entering his “deadliest period”.

Biden’s Covid-19 task force coordinator Jeff Zients told reporters that under Trump there was no federal level strategy and a comprehensive approach was lacking.

“Now that President Biden takes office, that is all changing,” he said.

The plan itself says, “The national strategy provides a roadmap to guide the United States out of the worst public health crisis in a century.”

Mission to WHO

Biden isn’t just trying to adjust the vaccination strategy in the United States, he wants to promote a campaign that helps vaccines reach the entire planet.

Dr Anthony Fauci told WHO Biden would order his country support projects to implement COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics and therapies for people in need around the world. And he added that Washington will stop reducing the number of US personnel at the World Health Organization and meet its financial obligations.

Fauci detailed these commitments during a video conference at the WHO Executive Board.

After former President Donald Trump, Biden’s predecessor, kicked off the WHO and stopped funding it amid coronavirus dispute, Fauci claimed the United States would settle its “financial commitments To the UN health agency.

Fauci’s pledges to the WHO, whose response to the coronavirus has been heavily criticized by Trump on several occasions, marks a strong twist to a multilateral approach to fight a pandemic that has already killed more than 2 million people worldwide and more than 406,000 in the United States.

“It is an honor for me to announce that the United States will continue to be a member of the World Health Organization,” Fauci said, quoted by CNN.

Hours after his inauguration, Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order stopping the US’s departure from the WHO in July that was announced by Trump last year as part of his accusations against the organization.

Fauci said the Biden administration will “stop downsizing at WHO” and “resume regular relations” with the agency.

Fauci called WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus “my dear friend”.

Several countries and Tedros welcomed the announcement of the new Biden government and pledged to work hand in hand with the United States.

“It’s a good day for WHO and a good day for global health,” Tedros said.

The WHO director called Fauci a “My brother Tony” and congratulated Biden and his vice president Kamala Harris on their inauguration.

“The role of the United States, its global role, is crucial,” he added.

The United States, under the Trump administration, did not haveor join Covax, the initiative of the UN and other organizations to provide vaccines against coronaviruses to developing countries.

Both the European Union (EU) and China have provided support for the program, which has encountered funding problems, difficulties in its negotiations with pharmaceutical companies and logistics.

Clarín editorial staff

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