MONGOLIA REPORTED 1,015 NEW COVID-19 CASES IN THE LAST 24 HOURS, BRINGING THE NATIONAL TALLY TO 34,623, SATURDAY, SILCHAR AS THE CORONAVIRUS CONTINUES ITS SURGE IN THE ` 6 MAY 1, 2021 GlobalChronicle COUNTRY. ‘1 bn Covid vax unprecedented Biden rolls out sweeping legislative feat, but disparities exists’

AGENCIES “It is an unprecedented scien- agenda in his 1st address to Congress tific achievement. Nobody could GENEVA: The speed at which have imagined that, within 16 AGENCIES investments we made together, ering drug prices and expanding the world has administered months of the identification of as one country, and investments Medicare benefits. one billion doses of Covid-19 a new virus, we would have WASHINGTON: US President Joe that only the government was in “I was not overly inspired,” jabs, just four months after vaccinated one billion people Biden on Wednesday night a position to make. Time again, said moderate Republican the World Health Organiza- worldwide with a variety of addressed a joint session of they propel us into the future,” Senator Lisa Murkowski. “I tion (WHO) approved the first different vaccines, using dif- Congress for the first time, Biden said. think he wanted to make sure vaccine for emergency use, is ferent platforms and made in rolling out his administra- The American Families Plan we knew all of the ins and outs remarkable, but unequal dis- different countries,” Soumya tion’s two top priorities in a will add two years of universal of his various plans. I was look- tribution of the vaccinations Swaminathan, the WHO’s chief sweeping legislative agenda high-quality pre-school for ing for more of an uplifting and highlights global disparities, scientist, based in Geneva, was -- the American Jobs Plan and every three- and four-year-old outreach on the bipartisan note say researchers. quoted as saying by the Nature. nations see. According to a UK the American Families Plan in America, increase Pell Grants that we heard from the inaugu- Just 10 countries have The world is also likely to hit study, of 1.1 million people aged -- while touting his achieve- and investment in historically ration speech.” acquired nearly three-quarters the two-billion mark much faster over 80 who were treated for ments on the eve of his 100th black universities, tribal colleg- Senator Tim Scott, who deliv- of all doses -- China and the US than it hit the first billion, but health conditions in clinics and day in office. es, and minority-serving institu- ered the Republican rebuttal to alone account for about 50 per it is important to ensure global hospitals between December and For the first time in US his- tions, provide up to 12 weeks of Biden’s address, argued that the cent of all the doses given out, vaccine equity to help curb the January, 42.5 per cent of white tory, two women were seated paid family and medical leave, administration’s plans on spend- while the entire continent of pandemic, she added. participants had been vaccinat- directly behind the president on ensure low- to middle-income ing and tax hikes would weaken Africa has received only 2 per “It’s absolutely amazing that ed, compared with just 20.5 per the dais: Speaker Nancy Pelosi families pay no more than 7 per made things worse,” the pres- the 15-dollar minimum wage, the US economy. cent of jabs. in a short time we developed cent of Black participants. The and Vice President Kamala cent of income to care for their ident continued. “Twenty mil- equal pay for women, as well as “The actions of the President Around 7.3 per cent of the multiple vaccines and gotten same study also found evidence Harris, the Xinhua news agen- children up to the age of five, and lion Americans lost their jobs expanded protections for mem- and his party are pulling us fur- world’s population of 7.79 billion a billion doses administered, of divides along socio-economic cy reported. expand the child tax credit for in the pandemic, working-and bers of the LGBTQ community. ther and further apart,” Scott have received at least one dose, but the way it’s happened has lines, the report said. The American Jobs Plan, a every child in a family. middle-class Americans. At the He also called on lawmak- said. as of April 27, but more than 75 worsened inequities around “Vaccinating only portions of planned investment of $4 tril- To finance the two plans, same time, the roughly 650 bil- ers from both parties to “find The event was limited to an per cent needs to be vaccinated the world,” said Krishna the population is not an effective lion in building climate-friendly Biden said he had no intention lionaires in America saw their consensus” and pass policing attendance of 200 people in a to bring the pandemic under Udayakumar, Associate strategy, and leaves us vulner- infrastructure such as road- of raising the deficit or imposing net worth increase by more than reform by the anniversary locked-down Capitol, instead control. This highlights the Director for innovation at the able to new variants,” warned ways and broadband, would be any tax hikes on people making $1 trillion.” of African American George of the usual 1,600, due to strict uneven distribution of vaccina- Duke Global Health Institute in Udayakumar, adding a global guided by one principle, ‘buy less than $400,000 a year. Instead, “It’s time to grow the econ- Floyd’s death next month. The security and health restric- tions, both within and between Durham, North Carolina. response is needed to fight a American, buy American,” he proposed major hikes on cor- omy from the bottom up and plans face an uphill battle and tions, media reported, adding nations. Disparities also exist within global pandemic. said Biden, pledging that the porations, investment income middle-out,” Biden announced. will require the support of at that Chief Justice John Roberts plan would create “millions of and wealthy households. However, the two plans least some Republican senators. will be the lone member of the ‘Second wife’ lodges good paying jobs” and be the “It’s time for corporate face a deeply uncertain fate in In his address, Biden touted Supreme Court on hand. B’desh approves China’s biggest increase in non-defence America and the wealthiest 1 Congress, where Democrats his achievements such as push- The address has been delayed rape case against research and development on per cent of Americans to pay hold only a slim majority in ing his $1.9 trillion coronavirus for months. Newly inaugurat- record in the US. their fair share,” said Biden, both the House and the Senate, relief package through Congress ed presidents generally deliver Sinopharm vaccine for Hefazat leader Mamunul “Throughout our history, citing a study which found that analysts say. and getting more than 200 mil- an address to Congress within public investments and infra- “CEOs make 320 times what The president urged Congress lion coronavirus vaccine shots weeks of taking office, but Biden DHAKA: A woman whom Hefa- structure have literally trans- their average workers make.” to pass legislation on immi- within his first 100 days. He has not done so due to the Covid- emergency use zat-e-Islam Bangladesh leader formed America. These are “The pandemic has only gration reform, gun safety, also pushed for actions on low- 19 pandemic, said media reports. Mamunul Haque claimed to DHAKA: Bangladesh’s drug Committee on Economic be his second wife filed a case Indonesia approves regulator has authorised the Affairs approved the proposal against the Hefazat leader with emergency use of China’s Sin- to produce the vaccines -- China’s Sonargaon police station in US to deploy additional forces to emergency use of opharm Covid-19 vaccine. Sinopharm and Russia’s Sputnik Narayanganj on Friday. Major General Mahbubur V. The country’s drug regulator ‘The woman lodged the case Chinese vaccine Rahman, Director General had earlier cleared the emer- with our police station some- of Bangladesh’s Directorate gency use of Russia’s Sputnik times after 10:00am alleging Afghanistan as withdrawal underway AGENCIES General of Drug Administration, V vaccine. that Mamunul allured her to made the announcement at a Shahida Akhter, a senior marry and had been raping her JAKARTA: Indonesia’s food press conference on Thursday, Cabinet Division official, said frequently for past two years,’ WASHINGTON: The White House Task Force will temporarily out of Afghanistan by September The US State Department on and drug authority BPOM the Xinhua news agency on Wednesday that several lead- Sonargaon police officer-in-charge has said the US military will deploy to Afghanistan to assist 11, 2021,” she added. Tuesday ordered non-essential has issued an emergency reported. ing Bangladeshi pharmaceutical Mohammad Hafizur Rahman told send additional forces to Af- with the force protection of forces The Pentagon last week said staff to leave the US Embassy in use authorisation (EUA) “We’ve issued emergency use firms in collaboration with the Our Correspondent. ghanistan to protect US and on the ground as we initiate with- that B-52 bombers and USS Kabul, Afghanistan. US Charge for the Covid-19 vaccine approval for the Chinese-made Chinese and Russian companies Mamunul, arrested on coalition forces during the drawal operations,” she noted. Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft d’Affaires to Afghanistan Ross produced by Chinese phar- jab.” will produce the vaccines. April 18 at his madrassah at withdrawal. Jean-Pierre also said Defense carrier will deploy to the region Wilson tweeted that the depar- maceutical company Sinop- Mahbubur Rahman further The decisions came days after Mohammadpur in Dhaka in sever- White House Deputy Press Secretary Lloyd Austin had to protect U.S. and coalition ture was approved “in light of harm, an official source said said hopefully within 1-1.5 Dhaka suspended the first dosing al cases of violence allegedly com- Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre directed that a carrier strike forces as they withdraw from increasing violence & threat on Friday. weeks, Bangladesh will receive of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vac- mitted by Hefazat in late March told reporters aboard Air Force group would provide sustained Afghanistan. Citing defense offi- reports in Kabul.” Biden previ- Chief of BPOM Penny a batch of Sinopharm vaccine cine on a supply crunch. and early April and in May 2013, is One that “a drawdown is under- additional force protection capa- cials, CNN reported that fewer ously announced the withdrawal Lukito made the announce- as a gift. Amid uncertainty over the now facing interrogation in police way,” saying that the US military bilities in the region throughout than 100 troops and military would begin on May 1, the dead- ment, saying the issuance The Bangladeshi government timely arrival of the next Covid- custody. On April 3, a group of peo- would deploy additional military the withdrawal. equipment had been pulled out line date for a full U.S. withdraw- of the EUA was based on the on Wednesday gave the green 19 vaccine shipment from India, ple confined Mamunul Haque to assets to Afghanistan and the “While these actions will ini- of the country largely by aircraft al under an agreement reached third phase of clinical trials in light to a proposal of producing the Bangladeshi government a resort in Sonargaon while he region to cover the withdrawal, tially result in increased forces to implement the withdrawal between the former Donald the United Arab Emirates and Chinese and Russian Covid-19 halted administering the first was spending private time with Xinhua reported. levels, we remain committed to order announced by President Trump administration and the other countries, the Xinhua vaccines in the country. dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine a woman whom he claimed to be “Elements of an Army Ranger having all US military personnel Joe Biden earlier this month. Afghan Taliban. news agency reported. Bangladesh’s Cabinet across the country from Monday. his ‘second wife’. NEWS NUGGETS 250 more stranded Over 100 illegal Vikram Doraiswami keen to push Bangladeshis return from immigrants drown off Covaxin as Covishield exports disrupted India through Benapole DHAKA: Indian High Com- on Facebook. Dr. Fahmida Khatun, Brig. missioner in Dhaka Vikram Renowned scholar-diplomat Gen.(retd.) Shahedul Anam DHAKA: As many as 250 more Covid-19. Libyan coast: Report Doraiswami is keen to re- and adviser on foreign affairs Khan and Ambassador (retd) Bangladeshis, who were Abu Taher, medical officer mind his hosts that there is to the last caretaker govern- Krishnan Srinivasan spoke at stranded in India due to travel of the port’s immigration office, another option of a Covid-19 ment Dr Iftekhar Ahmed the event as the panel of discus- restrictions enforced in a bid to said the returnees are bearing DHAKA: Bangladesh reported the vaccine available from his Chowdhury chaired the ses- sants, drawn from both sides stop Indian coronavirus vari- their own expenses during their lowest number of Covid deaths country as the vaccine sup- sion. Chairman of Cosmos of the border. ants from entering the country, institutional quarantine at hotels. in 25 days as 57 more deaths ply from the Serum Institute Foundation Enayetullah Bangladesh has so far have returned to Bangladesh Besides, the six Covid-19 were logged in the last 24 hours of India got disrupted amid Khan delivered the opening received 7 million doses of the through Benapole land port in patients have been admitted to ending at 8am Friday. high domestic demand. remarks. Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, Jessore. the coronavirus unit at Jessore Since 5 April when 52 deaths The High Commissioner Doraiswami reiterated It was the latest instalment manufactured under license Benapole Immigration Officer- General Hospital, he said. were reported in the country, said besides the Covishield that for Covaxin, there is also in Cosmos Foundation’s by SII and sold under the brand in-Charge (OC) Ahsan Habib said OC Ahsan Habib said since the the daily death toll had been on vaccine from Serum, the an offer to co-produce that Ambassador Lecture Series, name Covishield. It had signed the Bangladeshis returned from enforcement of the travel ban, the rise with a record number of alternative that they have remains on the table. in which the envoys of var- a deal with local pharma giant India on Thursday after getting neither any Bangladeshi passport fatalities being reported almost consistently been offering to He also said Dhaka can ious countries stationed in Beximco Pharmaceuticals to clearance from the deputy high holders had gone to India and nor every day. On 19 April, Bangladesh reported its highest number export Covaxin, which they choose to be flexible, so the Dhaka are invited to deliver supply 30 million doses over commissioner of Bangladesh had any Indian citizens entered of fatalities when 112 people died of the virus. offered not only for trial here choice is not either/or. It a keynote, before engaging a period of 6 months, starting there. With their arrival, a total of Bangladesh. With today’s figures, the total death count reached 11,450 in in Bangladesh at their own can choose to order both. with a high-level expert panel from January. 689 Bangladeshis returned home Bangladesh has sealed its land the country and the death rate remains 1.51% on Friday. cost but also for co-production. “Bangladesh can choose all on bilateral ties between The supply of the rest of until Thursday afternoon since borders with India for two weeks The number of new cases also dropped in the last 24 hours Covaxin is the brand name the options offered to it. It Bangladesh and the country the vaccine doses as agreed the imposition of the 14-day ban effective from 6am on April 26 with 2,177 new infections recorded during the period. With these of India’s ‘indigenous vac- can choose some. But this is they represent. remains suspended due to on April 26, he said. to 6pm on May 9 with a view to new figures, the total caseload now stands at 7,59,132. Besides, cine’, so called for also being Bangladesh’s sovereign deci- Ambassador (retd) Tariq current high demand in India. On the other hand, 109 people containing Covid-19 transmission the positivity rate stands 10.34% on Friday. developed on Indian soil by sion, not an Indian decision,” A Karim, Professor C. Raja Bangladesh also received returned to India during the same from the neighbouring country. In the meantime, 21,046 samples were tested in 419 labs across Hyderabad-based Bharat he said, while addressing a Mohan, Professor Imtiaz 3.3 million doses of Covishield period, he added. Trade through the borders will the country. Biotech in collaboration with symposium titled ‘Bangladesh- Ahmed, Pinak Ranjan as a bilateral partnership gift. All the Bangladeshi returnees continue, however. Among the latest day’s victims, 32 were men, and 25 were the Indian Council of Medical India Relations: Prognosis Chakravarty, Dr. Debapriya Overall, the 10.3 million doses are being put under institutional The second wave of Covid-19 is women. Of them, 55 died in different hospitals across the country Research (ICMR) - National for the Future’ which pre- Bhattacharya, Major Gen. are the largest amount sent by quarantine at seven residential ripping through India, with lack while two died on the way to hospital. Institute of Virology (NIV). miered on Thursday night (retd) A. N. M. Muniruzzaman, India to any country. hotels in Benapole. of hospital beds, medical oxygen Moreover, 28 of the deceased hailed from the Dhaka Division, So far, six of the returnees and adequate healthcare bring- 13 from Chattogram, five each from Khulna and Sylhet, and two have been found positive for ing the nation to its knees. each from Rajshahi, Barishal, and Rangpur division. Pak recalls ambassador in Saudi Over 9mn vaccine Thailand Arabia over corruption charges doses administered reports 1,583 new China’s massive Tibet infra HAMZA AMEER Pakistanis couldn’t be ignored. in Saudi Arabia Covid-19 cases, 15 “The Government of Pakistan more deaths ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan attaches high importance to the RIYADH: Over nine million push cause of worry for India government has recalled its welfare of overseas Pakistanis. doses of coronavirus vac- AGENCIES Ambassador in Saudi Ara- The overseas Pakistanis are cine have been administered SUBIR BHAUMIK be upgraded and extended to Ranade, former Cabinet bia, along with other officials our greatest asset. Their role across Saudi Arabia, the BANGKOK: Thailand report- run along China’s southwest- Secretariat’s Chiba expert, at the Pakistan embassy, to in national development is Ministry of Health said in a ed fewer than 2,000 new KOLKATA: China is planning ern border. say that “in just over a decade, make them part of a high-level indispensable,” said Chaudhri. statement late Thursday on Covid-19 cases for the sec- to develop a massive defence The new 1,800-km Chengdu- China will have a much-im- inquiry into complaints of de- The high-level inquiry was its official Twitter account. ond day in a row, as the logistics infrastructure in Lhasa high-speed railway net- proved strategic border defence manding bribes from the Paki- initiated as per orders of Prime According to the statement, country has toughened Tibet that will turn the once work will be the second strate- infrastructure”. stani expatriates. Minister Imran Khan, after the vaccines were provided restrictions to curb the out- independent kingdom into a gic railway connecting from “The considerably enhanced The announcement came complaints of alleged involve- through more than 587 centres, break. military hub to dominate the Tibet to the Mainland, reduc- Chinese military presence will during a weekly press briefing ment in taking bribes from the the Saudi Gazette reported. The country confirmed Himalayas. ing travel time from Chengdu be a long-term potential threat at the Pakistan foreign office, labourers. Meanwhile, Muhammad 1,583 new Covid-19 cases and The plans were approved to Lhasa to just 10 hours. weakness, China will construct for India,” Ranade said. where the spokesperson Zahid The Prime Minister’s Office Al-Abdel Ali, the spokesman 15 deaths on Friday, accord- during the plenary session Chengdu is now the head- at least 20 new border airports Ranade has closely studied Chaudhri confirmed that offi- stated that Imran took “seri- of the ministry, said that no ing to the Center for Covid- of China’s National People’s quarters of the integrated Tibet- by 2025 in Tibet, in places like the 142-page, 70,000-character cials in the Pakistan embassy ous view of the situation and requests have so far been 19 Situation Administration Congress (NPC) in March this Sichuan military command Tashkurgan and Longzi. “14th Five Year Plan (2021- in Saudi Arabia, had been called expressed displeasure over the submitted by the ministry (CCSA). year and also by the Chinese that makes it possible for the Tashkurgan, the last stop 2025) and the Long Range back. attitude and behaviour of the to the concerned authorities Of the new infections, 1,579 People’s Political Consultative People’s Liberation Army (PLA) before the Karakoram Pass, Objectives through the Year “Our Ambassador of Pakistan officers posted at the embassy to re-impose curfews during were domestic transmissions Conference (CPPCC). to move strategic reserves swift- is under the jurisdiction of the 2035 for National Economic to Saudi Arabia has already or consulates in Saudi Arabia.” the end of Ramadan and Eid and four others were import- The Tibet infrastructure ly from the borders with other South Xinjiang Military District and Social Development of the returned and orders have been Khan said that he has Al-Fitr holidays. ed cases, CCSA assistant development projects have been Southeast Asian nations to beef and the PLA could easily threat- People’s Republic of China”, issued for the recall of six more ordered a “full-scale inquiry of Attending a program on spokeswoman Panprapa included in the 14th Five Year up both offensives and strategic en the Daulat Beg Oldi and the whose English version is yet officers of the diplomatic, com- Pakistan’s ambassador in Saudi the Al-Ekhbariya channel, Yongtrakul said. Plan (2021-2025). defence on the India front. Depsang Plains from there. to be released. munity welfare and consular Arabia on multiple complaints he said that strict compliance The 15 additional deaths The Long Range Shigatse (Rikaze), Tibet’s sec- The airport at Longzi in “The document clarifies wings of the embassy,” con- of maltreatment with Pakistani with the precautionary meas- reported on Friday took the Objectives-2035 additionally ond-largest city, will emerge as a Tibet’s Shannan County will China’s national strategic firmed Chaudhri. nationals.” “Also, maximum ures and preventive protocols national toll to 203, Panprapa identifies a number of strategic rail transportation hub as work also boost the capabilities of intent and identifies the core “Prime Minister Imran Khan staff of the embassy has been will prompt the ministry not said. military projects for completion has begun on railways to link the People’s Liberation Army areas of national security and had directed for an inquiry. The recalled,” he said. to enforce strict procedures. Thailand’s cumuative by 2025 and 2035. Shigatse with Jilong in Guizhou Air Force (PLAAF) in the mid- development. It has a definite Prime Minister’s directions The Prime Minister has also “Taking the vaccine leads us Covid-19 infections now stand The G318 Sichuan-Tibet province and Hotan in Xinjiang dle sector of the Line of Actual focus on strategic science and were being fully implemented,” stated that those found guilty to get out of the crisis soon,” at 65,153, with 28,696 current- Highway and the G219 and province. Control (LAC). technology programmes in the he added. of maltreatment of Pakistani he asserted. ly hospitalised. G331 national highways will To make up for aerial defence Analysts like Jayadeva frontier areas. Chaudhri went on to say nationals in Saudi Arabia will that the welfare of the overseas have to face strict punishment.