Live COVID-19 updates: Biden unveils 1.9-tln-USD relief proposal to fight pandemic, bolster economy
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BEIJING, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled a 1.9-trillion-dollar COVID-19 relief bill, which includes another round of direct payments to individuals, aid for state and local governments, increased unemployment benefits, as well as more funding for testing and vaccine distribution.
Calling the recently approved 900-billion-dollar bipartisan relief package "an important first step," Biden said in a speech in Wilmington, Delaware Thursday night that "we need more action, more bipartisanship, and we need to move fast."
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BEIJING -- The Chinese mainland on Thursday reported 144 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, of whom 135 were locally transmitted and the rest arrived from outside the mainland, the National Health Commission said Friday.
Of the locally transmitted cases, 90 were reported in Hebei, 43 in Heilongjiang, and one each in Guangxi and Shaanxi, the commission said in its daily report.
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GENEVA -- Two members of the international expert team of the World Health Organization (WHO) scheduled to fly from Singapore to China's Wuhan on Thursday have been tested positive for IgM antibodies, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Thursday.
At the 6th Meeting of the Emergency Committee on COVID-19, Tedros said that the other 13 members of the team to study the origins of the novel coronavirus have arrived in Wuhan as scheduled.
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LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles County, the most populous county in the United States, recorded nearly 2,000 COVID-19 deaths in one week as the disease is "running rampant," local health officials said on Thursday.
The county, home to 10 million residents, on Thursday reported 17,323 new confirmed cases and 287 additional deaths, pushing its cumulative cases up to 975,299 with 13,234 related deaths, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported in a daily release. Enditem
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