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The White House is desperate to announce the authorization of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine. Mark Meadows has reportedly pressured FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn to announce the emergency authorization by the end of the day on Friday. Citing a report in the Washington Post, Business Insider reports that Meadows gave Hahn an ultimatum. Hahn either moves up the announcement or submit his resignation. This comes after President Donald Trump went after the agency on Twitter earlier in the morning, calling it "a big, old, slow turtle." Hahn denied the Post's report shortly after it was published, calling it "untrue." The White House declined to comment.
Manila, Jun 22 (EFE).- The president of the Philippines threatened to arrest those refusing to get the Covid-19 vaccine at a time when the country is battling one of its worst coronavirus outbreaks."If you don't want to get vaccinated, I'll have you arrested then I'll inject a vaccine into your buttocks," Rodrigo Duterte, known for his coarse manner and foul language, said on Monday night during a televised address. (Camera: MARK CRISTINO).SHOT LIST: PEOPLE RECEIVE A DOSE OF COVID-19 VACCINE IN MANILA, PHILIPPINES.
Speaking from the EU summit in Porto, Portugal, French President Emmanuel Macron urges the United States to end its de facto ban on coronavirus vaccine exports. Macron says that stopping the export ban is "the key to producing vaccines quickly for all poor and middle-income countries". SOUNDBITE
The European Union tightens its vaccine export control mechanism to prevent what it sees as an unfair one-way flow of vaccines out of the bloc. SOUNDBITE
London, Sofia, Mar 24 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Archive-Neil Hall/Vassil Donev) The European Union announced Wednesday that it would consider the progress of jab rollouts and the severity of the Covid-19 crisis in recipient countries when assessing Covid-19 vaccine exports from production plants in the bloc. ARCHIVE FOOTAGE OF ASTRAZENECA VACCINATION IN LONDON (AT THE NHS EN EALING CENTRE) AND OF VACCINATION IN SOFIA (ALL THE FOOTAGE IS FROM FEBRUARY 22).
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