US extends state of emergency for covid-19 until spring

This Friday was the last day available for the Joe Biden-led Administration to announce the end of the emergency notification, so nothing happened. automatically extends until at least April of next year.

The declaration of emergency for the pandemic has been in effect since January 2020.

In late September, US Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, The country made significant progress in the war. covid-19 compared to last year, the pandemic is not over yet.

“300 to 400 people a day die from covid. we’re not over it“, he told a group of journalists during a visit to a vaccination center in Washington.

The comments from the person in charge of the health portfolio characterized statements that US president Joe Biden had previously given to the CBS network, reassuring him that the “pandemic is over.”

“What the president said everybody feels we’re so much better now“More than a year ago, he procured Becerra.

But Biden’s statement has already resonated with Republicans in Congress, who are trying to repeal the national emergency declaration.

A group of 17 House deputies wrote a letter asking Biden to lift the measure, and a Republican senator passed a resolution for the upper house to vote the same.

“The federal government spent about ten billion dollars, which led to an economic crisis”MPs wrote in the letter.

Becerra rejected the idea of ​​removing the emergency declaration now, saying that they should wait for a statement from the scientific community to make a decision.

“We will wait for scientists to guide us and tell us where we stand”sure.

USA, between August and September 2022 an average of 356 deaths per day The disease caused by covid-19 and the virus is the third leading cause of death in the country after cancer and heart disease.