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Tunisia, Mar 25 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Mohamed Messara) Tunisia received on Thursday 200,000 doses of the Chinese Sinovac vaccine against Covid-19.FOOTAGE OF THE ARRIVAL OF VACCINES IN TUNISIA.
Amazon exec Dave Clark wants to help vaccinate the country against Covid-19. Clark is offering to help President Joe Biden with the unprecedented vaccination effort. Biden has pledged to vaccinate 100 million Americans in his first 100 days in office. Clark offered Amazon's logistics, communications, and IT expertise in a letter addressed to President Biden. Clark said: "We are prepared to leverage our operations, information technology, and communications capabilities". Clark also requested that Amazon's essential workers be eligible to receive the vaccine at the "earliest appropriate time."
Spencer Platt/Getty Images Americans want President Joe Biden to prioritize small business aid and provide further relief from the pandemic. Richard Prisinzano, director of policy analysis at the Penn Wharton Budget Model, said that more aid is necessary to help businesses, but it is reliant on vaccine distribution and the pandemic timeline. Other components of Biden's stimulus proposal, like the stimulus checks and moratoriums on evictions, will also help small businesses. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Small businesses have been hit hard throughout the pandemic, and President Joe Biden intends to provide relief through his stimulus proposal unveiled last Thursday.
The Pentagon has upped the number of National Guard members it wants present at President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration by 4,000. CNN reports the Pentagon on Friday authorized up to 25,000 National Guard members, marking an increase from the 21,000 troops authorized a day earlier. Law enforcement in Washington, DC, and around the country is bracing for more extremist violence after the deadly insurrection at the Capitol last week. The DOD announced Tuesday that Guardsmen and women will be armed. Law enforcement is monitoring phones and other communications in an all-out effort to track individuals to ensure they do not travel to Washington.
President-elect Joe Biden announced during a Friday speech that he has plans for FEMA. He said he will instruct the Federal Emergency Management Agency to build facilities for COVID-19 vaccines. These facilities will then distribute the vaccine to the American public, says Business Insider. Biden said his administration will build 100 federally-funded community vaccination centers. He plans to have this in motion by the end of his first month in office. He also promised to set up mobile vaccination units for hard-hit and hard to reach communities.
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