Biden names Vidur Sharma as Policy Advisor for Testing in COVID-19 Response Team
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Last Updated: Jan 16, 2021, 02:11 PM IST
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The announcement of Sharma s appointment as Policy Advisor for Testing was made by Biden on Friday along with additional members of the White House COVID-19 Response Team.
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Sharma is a graduate of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Saint Louis University.Photo: Twitter.
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as the US President-elect laid out his ambitious goal to intensify vaccinations across the country to tackle the spread of the deadly pandemic.
Indian-American Vidur Sharma Appointed As Covid Testing Adviser By Biden Indian-American Vidur Sharma Appointed As Covid Testing Adviser By Biden The announcement of Vidur Sharma s appointment as Policy Advisor for Testing was made by Biden on Friday along with additional members of the White House COVID-19 Response Team.
Vidur Sharma is a graduate of Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Saint Louis University.
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Joe Biden has named Indian-American health policy expert Vidur Sharma as testing advisor in his COVID-19 Response Team, as the US President-elect laid out his ambitious goal to intensify vaccinations across the country to tackle the spread of the deadly pandemic.
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China builds 1,500-room hospital in 5 days after surge in Covid-19 cases
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Workers carry a container of coronavirus test samples outside of a residential neighbourhood in Shijiazhuang in northern China s Hebei Province
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. Updated: 16 Jan 2021, 03:12 PM IST AP
The hospital is one of six with a total of 6,500 rooms being built in Nangong, south of Beijing in Hebei province
A total of 645 people are being treated in Nangong and the Hebei provincial capital, Shijiazhuang
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China on Saturday finished building a 1,500-room hospital for Covid-19 patients to fight a surge in infections the government said are harder to contain and that it blamed on infected people or goods from abroad.