The Latest: Biden calls out Republican governors on vaccines

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is calling immoderate Republican governors “cavalier” for resisting caller national vaccine requirements helium hopes volition incorporate the surging delta variant.

Biden visited Brookland Middle School connected Friday, conscionable a abbreviated thrust from the White House. He was making the lawsuit for caller national rules that could interaction 100 cardinal Americans.

All employers with much than 100 workers indispensable beryllium vaccinated oregon tested play for the virus, affecting astir 80 cardinal Americans. About 17 cardinal workers astatine wellness facilities that person national Medicare oregon Medicaid besides indispensable beryllium afloat vaccinated.

“I americium truthful disappointed that peculiarly immoderate Republican governors person been truthful cavalier with the wellness of these kids, truthful cavalier with the wellness of their communities,” Biden said during the visit. “This isn’t a game”

Republicans and immoderate national officials accidental he’s overreaching his authority. Asked astir imaginable ineligible challenges to the caller vaccine requirements, Biden responded, “Have astatine it.” ___

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MORE ON THE PANDEMIC:

— President Biden: GOP governors ‘cavalier’ for resisting vaccine rules

— South Africa vaccinates immoderate kids successful trial of Chinese vaccine

— Key parts of Biden’s program to face delta variant surge

— Los Angeles schools mandate vaccines for 630,000 students

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— See AP sum astatine https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic.

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

ATLANTA – Protests from module members proceed astatine Georgia’s nationalist universities, though leaders of Georgia’s assemblage strategy are not backing down from their presumption that schools can’t necessitate masks oregon vaccines.

Acting Chancellor Teresa MacCartney says those policies aren’t going to change, noting the strategy volition travel the pb of Gov. Brian Kemp and Republican lawmakers who power the assemblage system’s purse strings.

“We are fulfilling our organization missions to present higher acquisition and services for students successful a mode that is champion for them,” MacCartney said. “Those expectations person been made wide since earlier the semester started. It should beryllium nary surprise. There are consequences for those not pursuing done and doing their jobs.”

The remarks earned a circular applause from regents, who were mostly unmasked. They were surrounded by dozens of assemblage presidents and administrators, who were mostly masked.

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MacCartney spoke Thursday, the aforesaid time module groups astatine the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech and Georgia State University passed resolutions calling for disguise and vaccine mandates.

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WASHINGTON — Senior Democratic senators are pressing Medicare to marque nursing location COVID-19 vaccination rates easy accessible for consumers.

Although the Biden medication is requiring vaccination for each nursing location staff, Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania accidental it could instrumentality months. They’re asking Medicare to station vaccination rates among residents and unit of idiosyncratic nursing homes connected its ‘Care Compare’ website, a acquainted tract for consumers.

“These information reside connected wholly abstracted (government) websites,” the senators wrote Medicare caput Chiquita Brooks-LaSure connected Friday. “Even if a idiosyncratic could find these websites, the vaccination information for idiosyncratic facilities are not prominently displayed, creating further barriers.”

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Medicare officials accidental they’re moving connected the problem.

The senators cited an Associated Press study connected outbreaks attributed to unvaccinated staff. Wyden and Casey seat the Finance and Aging committees, respectively.

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Paris — France announced caller restrictions for unvaccinated U.S. travelers.

Starting Sunday, unvaccinated travelers from the U.S. who could participate France with lone a caller antagonistic coronavirus trial indispensable amusement “pressing grounds for travel.”

These grounds besides use broadly to returning French citizens, ineligible residents, relatives of French citizens, overseas wellness professionals coming to assistance successful the combat against COVID-19, proscription and diplomatic workers, and radical transiting done France.

None of these restrictions use to afloat vaccinated travelers from the U.S.

The determination follows the European Union’s proposal past week that its 27 nations reinstate restrictions connected tourists from the U.S. due to the fact that of rising coronavirus infections there.

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JOHANNESBURG — South Africa has started vaccinating children and adolescents arsenic portion of the planetary Phase 3 objective trials of China’s Sinovac Biotech changeable for children 6 months to 17 years.

The planetary survey volition enroll 2,000 participants successful South Africa and 12,000 others successful Kenya, the Philippines, Chile and Malaysia. The archetypal children successful South Africa were inoculated astatine the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University successful the superior Pretoria to footwear disconnected the trials.

The Sinovac institution says others volition get shots astatine six antithetic sites crossed the country.

South Africa has recorded 6,270 infections and 175 confirmed deaths successful the past 24 hours. The 2.8 cardinal full infections relationship for much than 35% of cases successful Africa. The federation has 84,327 confirmed deaths.

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Denmark’s precocious vaccination complaint has enabled the Scandinavian state to go 1 of the archetypal European Union nations to assistance each home restrictions.

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The instrumentality to normality has been gradual, but arsenic of Friday, the integer walk — a impervious of having been vaccinated — is nary longer required erstwhile entering nighttime clubs, making it the past microorganism safeguard to fall.

More than 80% of radical supra the property of 12 person had the 2 shots. As of midnight, the Danish authorities nary longer considers COVID-19 “a socially captious disease.”

Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said past period that “the epidemic is nether control” but warned: “we are not retired of the epidemic” and the authorities volition enactment arsenic needed if necessary.

Jens Lundgren, a prof of viral diseases astatine the Copenhagen University Hospital, said the authorities would beryllium “quite willing” to reintroduce restrictions if infections spike again.

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BERLIN — Germany’s lasting committee connected vaccination is recommending that large women get vaccinated against COVID-19.

The committee said connected Friday that aft evaluating of the disposable evidence, it is issuing a draught proposal that women from the 2nd trimester of gestation onward and breastfeeding mothers get 2 doses of an mRNA vaccine.

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It besides recommended that each those of child-bearing property who haven’t yet been vaccinated get inoculated truthful they are protected from the coronavirus earlier immoderate pregnancy.

About two-thirds of Germany’s colonisation has received astatine slightest 1 vaccine dose and 61.9% person been afloat vaccinated. The gait of vaccinations has slowed to a crawl precocious and officials are keen to promote much radical to get the shots earlier the winter.

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LONDON — A starring idiosyncratic down the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine says booster shots whitethorn beryllium unnecessary for galore people.

Oxford University Professor Sarah Gilbert told The Telegraph paper connected Friday that immunity from the vaccine was holding up good — adjacent against the delta variant.

While the aged and those who are immune-compromised whitethorn request boosters, the modular two-dose regimen should support astir people, she says.

Gilbert says the world’s precedence should beryllium to get much vaccines to countries with constricted supplies.

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The comments travel arsenic the Joint Committee connected Vaccination and Immunization, a sheet of experts that advises the British government, is expected to marque recommendations successful the coming days connected the standard of immoderate booster program.

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CAIRO — Egypt’s regular reported cases of coronavirus person surpassed 400 for the archetypal clip successful months.

The Health Ministry connected Friday reported 413 cases and 12 deaths successful the past 24 hours. Daily cases person been spiking successful caller weeks since the much contagious delta variant was detected successful the state successful July.

The latest summation is alarming for Egyptian authorities arsenic schools are scheduled to unfastened their doors for face-to-face classes adjacent week.

Egypt, the Arab world’s astir populous state with 100 cardinal people, has reported 291,585 cases, including 16,836 confirmed deaths from the pandemic. However, the existent numbers are believed to beryllium overmuch higher since wellness authorities person done constricted testing.

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. is doubling the good for radical who interruption the regularisation requiring masks connected planes, trains and different forms of nationalist transit to dilatory the dispersed of COVID-19, with President Joe Biden informing Thursday that violators should “be prepared to pay.”

First-time offenders would look a imaginable good of $500 to $1,000 and second-time offenders could wage $1,000 to $3,000 nether rules that the Transportation Security Administration said volition spell into effect Friday.

The good presently starts astatine $250 and tin spell up to $1,500 for repetition offenders.

“If you interruption the rules, beryllium prepared to pay,” Biden said arsenic helium announced the summation during a code outlining national vaccine requirements.

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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka is extending a lockdown for different week arsenic it struggles against a coronavirus surge.

The COVID-19 committee chaired by President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa decided Friday to widen the lockdown that was to extremity Monday until Sept. 21, statesmanlike spokesperson Kingsly Rathnayaka said.

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The lockdown was archetypal imposed connected Aug. 20. During that period, the authorities has allowed export-related factories to run and for agriculture enactment to beryllium done, successful summation to indispensable services specified arsenic health, nutrient distribution, connection and power.

Doctors and commercialized unions person warned that hospitals and morgues person reached their maximum capacities during the ongoing surge caused by the delta variant of the coronavirus.

Sri Lanka has confirmed 474,870 cases and 10,689 deaths from the pandemic.

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OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says starting adjacent week, the state’s indoor disguise mandate volition beryllium expanded to see outdoor events with 500 oregon much attendees, careless of vaccination status.

The caller request — which takes effect Monday — comes days aft a akin outdoor disguise mandates took effect successful the state’s 2 astir populous counties, King and Pierce, owed to rising coronavirus cases.

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An indoor disguise mandate, careless of vaccination status, has been successful spot successful Washington since Aug. 23. Last month, Oregon was the archetypal authorities to reinstitute a statewide disguise request for outdoor nationalist areas wherever radical are adjacent together.

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