8.05 am: US health expert Anthony Fauci says the country would not make any future coronavirus vaccine mandatory for all, AFP reports. “...
8.05 am: US health expert Anthony Fauci says the country would not make any future coronavirus vaccine mandatory for all, AFP reports.
“You don’t want to mandate and try and force anyone to take a vaccine,” Fauci, who is a member of the White House coronavirus task force, says. “We’ve never done that. You can mandate for certain groups of people like health workers, but for the general population you can’t.”
Anthony Fauci, the United States’ top infectious diseases official, said Wednesday the government wouldn’t make any future COVID-19 vaccine obligatory for the general public – though local jurisdictions could make it mandatory for some groups, like children.
His comments came hours after Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that everyone in his country would be made to take the vaccine.
7.58 am: “We are very pleased to hand over the final tranche of 100 ventilators to India, fulfilling President Trump’s commitment to provide these critically needed supplies to support India’s pandemic response,” US ambassador Ken Juster says.
7.55 am: The United States has donated a shipment of 100 ventilators to India to help it fight the coronavirus pandemic, the Hindustan Times reports. This was the second shipment from the US to India since the health crisis began.
The first shipment of machines, donated in June, have been set up at...
