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The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is expected to get emergency use authorization from the Food & Drug Administration. And according to Business Insider, the Pentagon is working with military precision to deliver the vaccine to US troops. The Pentagon announced plans on Wednesday to distribute a COVID-19 vaccine to US military personnel, starting with almost 44,000 doses. Initially, vaccination will be voluntary, as is standard practice with emergency use authorizations. However, it could eventually become mandatory.
Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie was released from the hospital on Saturday. Business Insider reports Christie emerged after a week-long stay to fight COVID-19. Christie aided President Trump in debate preparations and attended the White House Rose Garden event announcing the president's Supreme Court nominee. Dr. Anthony Fauci has since labeled the gathering at the Rose Garden 'a super-spreader event.' Christie said that he would reveal more about his current condition in the coming days. I want to thank the extraordinary doctors & nurses who cared for me for the last week. Chris Christie
Manila, Apr 20 (EFE/EPA).- Dozens of Filipinos on Monday queued up for free meals from a mobile kitchen set up by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for low income communities affected by the coronavirus pandemic in Quezon City.Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened a martial law-like crackdown in case the number of quarantine violators continues to rise, according to media reports. Police said that more than 100,000 individuals have violated the quarantine protocols - caught outside their homes without valid reasons. The Philippines began massive tests last week to isolate positive, even asymptomatic, cases to contain the disease thanks to donations from China, South Korea and Brunei, in addition to having received a team of Chinese doctors to advise their Filipino colleagues in response to the pandemic. (Camera: ROLEX DELA PENA).SHOT LIST: FILIPINOS QUEUING UP FOR FREE MEALS FROM THE PHILIPPINE ARMED FORCES IN QUEZON CITY, METRO MANILA, THE PHILIPPINES.
Boris Johnson leaves a public inquiry into his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic after attending the first of two gruelling days in the witness box. The former British prime minister apologised for "the pain and the loss and the suffering" caused by the pandemic but defended his government. Johnson has faced a barrage of criticism from former aides for alleged indecisiveness and a lack of scientific understanding during the crisis. IMAGES
Fresh waves of Covid-19 cases show that the pandemic is "nowhere near over", the World Health Organization's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns, adding: "As the virus pushes at us, we must push back." SOUNDBITE
The streets are quiet Sunday in China's cosmopolitan business hub of Shanghai. The city reported 39 Covid deaths Sunday, official data showed, its highest daily toll since a weeks-long lockdown started. IMAGES
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