Regulators say johnson and johnsons single dose to obamas vaccine is safe and effective. And how much with all the supporters Manchester City continue their on beat and run. Back to a nail in the Champions League to clinch that 19th consecutive win in all competitions. Welcome to the news hour we begin with warnings of an attempted coup in armenia the Prime Minister nicola passion yan has fired his military chief after the army called for his resignation he says that call amounted to a coup attempt urging his supporters to gather in the capital youre yvonne hes been facing protests and calls to step down robin for syria walker is joining us now from tbilisi robin what more can you tell us about the situation in armenia. Well nick is hoping that hes going to be able to pull out large numbers of armenians to republic square in the center of yerevan which is where all demonstrations in the past were if close in support of him when he came to power a few years ago in the socalled velvet re
Will be eligible to get a vaccine. We have done this not only by increasing vaccine productions but also adding thousands more vaccinators and thousands additional locations to get vaccinated. We know of vaccinating about 2. 5 billion people per day. Up from 900,000 when we arrived. This weekend, was the first time that the u. S. Reported vaccinating more than 3m people on consecutive days printed they are now a total of 81 Million People are nearly one in three adults with at least one vaccine dose in the u. S. And 44,000,004 are fully vaccinated nearly 69 percent of seniors have now received the first vaccination and 42 percent are fully vaccinated. In a second core element of our plan, is to get schools open and open safely. This is been following the science dramatically increasing testing and making it a priority to vaccinate teachers. With 10 billion committed to testing so far, schools have resources to properly test the students and staff. Today were taking another step in buil
Bidens 1. 9 Trillion Covid relief package. Will the Stimulus Bill help speed up the process of reopening states and cities, especially now that Vaccination Rates are improving . Well dig into that next. Also this hour, levar burton, the longtime host of Reading Rainbow is here tonight. Well get his take on six problematic works by dr. Seuss going out of print. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, im Joshua Johnson. Welcome to the week. The Covid Relief Bill passed the senate, paving the way for 1,400 checks to reach millions of mailboxes. Not one republican supported the bill despite its widespread support among voters. After todays senate vote, President Biden had this to say i want to thank all of the senators who worked so hard to reach a compromise to do the right thing for the American People during this crisis and voted to pass the American Rescue plan. It obviously wasnt easy. It wasnt always pretty. But it was so desperately needed. The bill heads back to the house, an
To use some revenues for other research you remember the german fire a Suitable Company made headlines early in september after receiving 445000000. 00 from berlin to support its development of the copen 1000. 00 vaccine and in july the United States had agreed to pay nearly 2000000000. 00 for the 1st 100000000. 00 doses of the vaccine once it was approved by u. S. Drug regulators. And meanwhile as we talk about increased supplies of covert vaccine us President Joe Biden on monday announced increased access for most americans in coming weeks im pleased to announce that at least 90 percent of all adults of this country will be eligible you vaccinated by april the 98 just 3 weeks from now because we have the facts seeds for the vast vast majority of adults he wont have to wait to make. Now while much of this seems like good news not everything in the vaccination effort is going as planned r. T. Correspondents i attempt or has more sorry are you know youre exactly right so while the u. S.
Adults in this country will be eligible you vaccinated by april the 19th just 3 weeks from now because we have the vaccines for the vast vast majority of adults who dont have to wait to may want. Now while much of this seems like good news not everything in the vaccination effort is going as planned archie correspondents i attempt or has more sorry you know youre exactly right so while the u. S. Might be on track with a vaccination rollout europe is questioning the safety and one of the most commonly available vaccine astra zeneca all while a 3rd way of the pandemic crashes over a europe now multiple countries are currently either completely halting or putting an age restriction on the use of astra zeneca as cove in 1000 vaccine after germany recorded 31 it cases over a rare blood clot in the brain 9 of which resulted in deaths now 18 countries mostly from the e. U. But there are some outside of the e. U. Like thailand indonesia democratic republic of congo they have partially suspende