HAWAI‘I COVID-19 JOINT INFORMATION CENTER DAILY NEWS DIGEST Dec. 10, 2020
Posted on Dec 10, 2020 in COVID-19, COVID-19 News Releases, Latest News, Newsroom
Governor’s Office:
Hawai‘i Ramps Up Effort to Vaccinate 81,000 People This Month
At an afternoon news conference, Governor Ige, Health Director Dr. Elizabeth Char, and other stakeholders laid out the first steps of Hawai‘i’s COVID-19 vaccination effort. This includes plans to distribute an expected 81,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccinations in December to high-risk health care workers and long-term care facilities across the state.
Earlier today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee recommended Emergency Use Authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. This recommendation must be adopted by the FDA, which is expected in the coming days.
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A federal lawmaker representing Ebonyi Central Senatorial zone in Ebonyi State, Senator Obinna Ogba has denied engaging cultists and IPOB to destroy the peace in his state as alleged by Governor David Umahi.
According to Ogba, he has never harboured, recruited, induced or engaged cultists for any purpose whether political or otherwise, in all his personal and public life.
Ogba, disclosed this to journalists on Thursday while condemning the closure of a private school in Ezza South LGA belonging to one of his aides, Friday Agbom by Ebonyi State government over alleged cultism practices.
According to Ogba, the act was meted on his aide to attack him, not minding the pains the students would go through.