President Joe Biden has formally lifted the Covid health emergency, which has provided exceptional support for over three years to the health care system in a country that has recorded more than a million deaths from the Corona virus. Previous «The lifting of the state of emergency in the country associated with the Covid-19 epidemic».
The decision ended lavish funding for Covid tests, vaccines and other emergency measures in an attempt to free the world’s largest economy from the grip of a global pandemic.
However, the situation remains unclear at the border with Mexico, where there is a state of emergency procedure called “Article 42”, which tightens the passage of undocumented arrivals through the southern border.
With the end of the state of emergency, the US administration is forced to adopt a new legal mechanism if it wants to avoid possible political damage that could result from new flows of immigrants and asylum seekers.
A senior White House official told AFP that “Section 42 expires May 11.”
And while the United States is now officially phasing out a global pandemic, the Biden administration has announced that it is working on a next-generation vaccine and other measures to combat any future variant of Covid.
“The +NextGen+ project will accelerate and simplify the rapid development of next-generation vaccines and therapeutics through public-private collaboration,” the official added.
He indicated that funding of around $5 billion is available to “promote scientific progress” and “overcome the rapid evolution of the virus that causes Covid-19.”