Movement during the Holiday Season after recording 993 deaths in 24 hours its the countrys highest daily death toll so far the u. N. Secretary general has called for a unified Global Response to corona virus as the number of deaths worldwide has reached 1500000 untenured terrace was speaking at a special pandemic session of the United Nations for the 1st time since 945. 00 the entire world is confronted by a common student got of this of a nationality and needs you to your face the world Us Organization provided factual information and scientific guidance that should have been the basies for equality in a few Global Response unfortunately many of these recommendations were not followed and in some situations there was a rejection of facts and and a lot of those of the united. And when companies go in there dont die in action dividers goes in every then action aid workers say thousands of ringer refugees are being coerced into moving to a Remote Island off the bangladeshi coast which th
Vaccines has become even more urgent but the u. K. Which was the 1st western country to do so has come under fire from regulators who suggest said the british approach may have been hasty has more from london the regulator here is very very confident indeed it says its followed all the international stringent checks and balances to approve the pfizer. Vaccine this is an emergent sea approval so yes it is quicker than normal but the European Union has been quite critical of whats been going on here in the u. K. Saying that sir but some callers have been cut that the regulator here has been far too hasty in the e. U. Is way of doing things is the best way of doing things obviously thats hugely debateable. In other news the uns Refugee Agency says bangladesh must not force rain or refugees to move to an island off the coast which is prone to storms and flooding aid groups have expressed concern that people are being coerced into going there every official say more than 1600 ring of refuge
Scientific achievement were not carried away with over optimism or fall into the naive belief that the struggle is over its not weve got to stick to our winter plan u. S. Officials say they hope to have around 40 percent of adults immunized by the end of february vaccines developed by pfizer and her expected to be approved next week thats as the u. S. Hit a new daily record of more than 100000 people being admitted to Hospital Health secretary alexeis are says millions of Vulnerable People could be vaccinated by the end of the year. U. S. President donald trump has released a 46 minute speech on social media outlining why he believes the election was stolen from him he continued to lead forward took place during the election despite the failure of several legal challenges. The Afghan Government and taliban negotiators have agreed on a framework for talks after weeks of stalemate negotiations in doha nato secretary general has welcomed this as a positive 1st step the United Nations has
Been more than 64000000 confirmed cases worldwide and nearly 1500000 deaths the United Nations is currently holding a special session of the General Assembly to discuss that very crisis the u. N. Secretary general is calling for unity but he also hates how it is that wealthier countries for not doing enough to help developing nations every extended lifesaving assistance to 6 the city of the most Vulnerable Companies small global humanitarian Response Plan from the start we have called for a stimulus package was at least 10 percent of global g. D. P. And for that relief for all countries that needed i welcome the steps that have been taken to help developing countries but they are totally insufficient for the scale of this crisis. Many low and middle income developing countries need immediate support to avert the liquidity crisis they are being forced to choose between providing basic services for their people also receiving bams facebook has announced it will start removing posts that
Coronavirus cases in the united states. Hello and welcome to axios virtual event, health care 21. I am sam baker coming from my home in washington, d. C. I would like to thank United Health group for making these conversations possible. I would like to welcome our audiences. You can follow along on twitter using the axios events. Over the next 30 minutes we will unpack the best way to unpack Health Insurance access and Health Insurance coverage in the united states, and what that path forward looks like both following the president ial election and in the midst of a pandemic that is getting worse every day. Our first guest today is senator thune smith of minnesota. Smithr, senator tina of minnesota. Thank you for joining us. Sen. Smith thank you, sam. It is terrific to be with everyone today. Sam i would like to start off to frame this conversation obviously, Health Care Access and Health Insurance coverage has been a very hot topic for a long time, but i think the pandemic has set of