Chile has secured over 36 million doses of various Covid-19 vaccines to be delivered in 2021 that s more than the country s total population, said Chilean Vice Minister for Trade Rodrigo Yanez.
Among the vaccines that Chile has secured include those by Pfizer and BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson as well as China s Sinovac, the vice minister told CNBC s Squawk Box Asia. Yanez added that the country also expects to receive some doses via Covax, a United Nations program to subsidize Covid vaccines for low-income countries.
Chile aims to vaccinate 80% of its population, and plans to inoculate all high risk groups by March 2021, said Yanez.
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Chile has secured over 36 million doses of various Covid-19 vaccines to be delivered in 2021 that s more than the country s total population, said Chilean Vice Minister for Trade Rodrigo Yanez.
Among the vaccines that Chile has secured include those by Pfizer and BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson as well as China s Sinovac, the vice minister told CNBC s Squawk Box Asia. Yanez added that the country also expects to receive some doses via Covax, a United Nations program to subsidize Covid vaccines for low-income countries.
Chile aims to vaccinate 80% of its population, and plans to inoculate all high risk groups by March 2021, said Yanez.
The Finance 202: Fed s Powell warns Washington will remain on economic clean-up duty for foreseeable future Tory Newmyer
with Brent D. Griffiths Jerome H. Powell has spent months all but skywriting over the Capitol that lawmakers should provide more emergency economic relief. Now, with Congress moving forward with a roughly $900 billion aid package and the vaccines that should eventually end the coronavirus pandemic rolling out across the country, the Federal Reserve chair has an updated message:
This is no time for Washington to ease up. “Getting through the next four, five, six months, that is key,” Powell said at a news conference after the central bank’s last policy meeting of the year.
U.S. lawmakers are racing to nail down a Covid relief bill after months of negotiating, as a Friday deadline to fund the government approaches and key aid measures are set to expire. Leaders from each side of the aisle met Tuesday afternoon and appeared to make progress. A final deal could include extended unemployment benefits, temporary student loan relief, a continued eviction moratorium and additional funding for small businesses. It s unclear whether a bill would send a second round of checks to Americans, but any combination of those efforts would help millions of people during a period of historic unemployment.