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Covid-19 vaccine progress made on several fronts, and experts are encouraged CNN 2/6/2021 By Jason Hanna and Madeline Holcombe, CNN © George Walker IV/The Tennessea/USA Today Devin Graham administers a COVID-19 test at the Community Assessment Center outside Nissan Stadium Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021 in Nashville, Tenn. Nas Covid Test Center Worker 002 The United States has seen progress on several fronts against Covid-19 this week -- including the opening of new mass inoculation sites and a third vaccine maker seeking authorization. While health experts are concerned that ...

The Latest: Sri Lankan officials say vaccinations advancing The Associated Press © Eranga Jayawardena FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2021, file photo, Sri Lankan nursing staff administer COVID-19 vaccines to front-line health workers in Colombo, Sri Lanka. India has gifted neighbors, including Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, with more than 5 million doses. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File) COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan health officials said on Saturday that more than half of the health workers and frontline military and police officers have so far been vaccinated against CO...

WHAT IT DOES The act gives the federal government broad authority to direct private companies to meet the needs of the national defense. Over the decades, the law’s powers have been understood to encompass not only times of war but also domestic emergency preparedness and recovery from terrorist attacks and natural disasters. The act authorizes the president to require companies to prioritize government contracts and orders seen as necessary for the national defense, with the goal of ensuring that the private sector is producing enough goods needed to meet a war effort or other national eme...

By Dania Nadeem and Rebecca Spalding Feb 5 (Reuters) - The Biden administration said on Friday it was invoking the Defense Production Act to help Pfizer Inc ramp up COVID-19 vaccine production and that "every option" was on the table to produce more Johnson & Johnson vaccine should it be authorized. It will also use the wartime powers to increase at-home COVID-19 tests, and make more surgical gloves in the United States, officials said at a Friday media briefing. "As is the case with other vaccines, we have not found that the level of manufacturing allows us to have as much vaccine as we thin...

Feb 5, 2021 Anita Berg welcomes health workers to the Well-being bus Wednesday at Homerton University hospital in London. The bus, which is staffed by volunteer aircrew, is providing free drinks and snacks to NHS staff at the hospital as part of project wingman. (John Walton/PA via AP) Here are summaries of the latest Associated Press stories worldwide on the coronavirus pandemic, including the White House says President Joe Biden is using the Defense Production Act to help bolster vaccine production, at-home coronavirus testing kits and surgical gloves. A White House spokesman says the U.S. ...