🎤#French President Emmanuel #Macron said in a press briefing after the #summit that he supported #EU vaccine export curbs for drug companies that don't meet their contractual commitments with the EU⤵️
🎤"I believe that we were right in January not to take #lockdown measures, we were right afterwards to take other measures to put brakes on the #pandemic"⤵️
This toll puts the country behind only the US and Brazil. President Andrés Manuel López #Obrador has ramped up #vaccination efforts in a race against time.
@MariaG_N 🇪🇹Across #Tigray, more than half a million people were forced to flee their homes. Thousands were able to find refuge in the regional capital Mek’ele.
🎤"We don’t have enough water, food, or clothes, we’re not receiving any help from the government," says a man displaced⤵️
@MariaG_N 🇪🇹🇪🇷Many survivors speak of massacres and accuse #Eritrean soldiers.
During a religious celebration in a #Tigray village, more than 150 people were killed by members of the Eritrean army, residents say.
🇫🇷 The French government has asked people to stop using homemade fabric face #masks as the artisanal coverings are considered to provide insufficient filtration against the new, more contagious #coronavirus variants 😷🦠
@JJammine With more than 26,000 confirmed cases of #covid19 in the past 24h in #France 🇫🇷, experts are considering options to stop the spread of the virus 🦠
Could one option be to reconfine just the elderly and vulnerable? @Ellen_TLG reports ⤵️
🇫🇷✈️French President Emmanuel #Macron said that all arrivals by plane must provide a negative #Covid19 test before entering the territory, including from other #EU countries 🇪🇺
As @WassimCornet reports, travellers to the #US will be required to quarantine on arrival while #masks will be mandated on many domestic trains, planes and buses ⤵️
@WassimCornet 🇺🇸 The measures are part of #Biden's national strategy that is outlined in a 200-page document that foresees scaling up #vaccinations, testing, returning students to school and rebuilding trust with the public among other goals 💉😷
Vice-president under Barack #Obama and a senator for 36 years, #JoeBiden is a political figure familiar to most Americans🇺🇸
To many, he lacks the aura of the last Democratic president, but after a period of turmoil in US politics, is he the steady pair of hands the nation needs?
#US 🇺🇸 President Joe #Biden moved swiftly to dismantle Donald #Trump’s legacy on his first day in office.
The president signed a series of executive actions to reverse course on immigration, climate change, racial equity and handling of the pandemic ✍️
#Inauguration Day for #JoeBiden will look unlike anything the nation has seen before as the scars of #Covid19 and the Jan. 6 insurrection at the #US 🇺🇸 #Capitol turn the West Front into a virtual ghost town compared to years past.