WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will announce new steps to sluggish the unfold of COVID-19 before the U.N. standard assembly meets, Surgeon commonplace Dr. Vivek Murthy said Sunday.
Murthy did not specify what these steps could be. The subsequent session of the familiar meeting opens Tuesday; the primary day of common debate may be here week.
talking to CNN on Sunday, Murthy defended Biden's efforts to expand vaccination in the u.s..
"There will be extra movements that we continue to work on, peculiarly within the world entrance," he observed.
Video: Biden proclaims new vaccine mandates
Biden on Thursday mentioned he would require federal worker's to be vaccinated in opposition t COVID-19 and mandate that big employers both require their laborers to be vaccinated or continually verified.
Biden mentioned the USA had donated a hundred and forty million vaccine doses to different nations. "it's American leadership on a global stage, and that is the reason just the starting," he referred to.
(Reporting by means of Brad Heath and Jeff Mason; enhancing by way of Lisa Shumaker and Cynthia Osterman)
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