US President Joe Biden officially ended the national state of emergency linked to Covid-19, in place for three years in the country, on Monday April 10. The United States was the country most affected by the pandemic: more than a million deaths.
It’s over. On Monday April 10, Joe Biden, the President of the United States sounded the death knell for the national state of emergency linked to Covid-19, which had been in place in the country for three years now. More than a million Americans have died from the pandemic.
The White House said in a statement that the president had ratified legislation passed by Congress “ending the national state of emergency related to the Covid-19 pandemic.”
This also means the end of the state of health emergency from May 11, but also the abolition of the considerable funds allocated since 2020 to the supply of Covid screening tests, free vaccines, and other measures. emergency, which will no longer be available.
A next generation of vaccines to come
However, if the government has decided to publicly turn the page on the pandemic, it is already working on the next generation of vaccines to combat any future variant of the virus.
“The NextGen project will accelerate and streamline the rapid development of the next generation of vaccines and treatments through public-private partnerships,” said a senior government official.
Funds amounting to at least $5 billion have been made available with a view to “promoting scientific advances”, and “staying one step ahead of the rapidly evolving virus that causes Covid -19”.
