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JOHANNESBURG AP 鈥?On a visit to South Africa, French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed that his country will provide millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses to help African countries speed up their inoculation drives.
stanley cup Macron pledged that France will help South Africa and other African countries to develop the capacity to produce their own vaccines to fight the pandemic. Macron met President Cyril Ramaphosa in the capital, Pretoria, on Friday and said he supports lifting the barriers preventing Africa from producing its own vaccines, but he said the immediate priority is to increase the supply of vaccines to Africa.Trying to lift the hurdles in order to allow vaccine production in South Africa and all of Africa, we are in favor of that, said Macron at a press conference with Ramaphosa.But what is the problem we are trying to overcome What we need to do is vaccinate as soon as possible, as many peo
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stanley cup er of duty and solidarity, he said. The more time it takes, the more the virus is likely to mutate and to come back, Macron said, adding that richer countries should provide any excess doses they have to poorer countries as quickly as possible. He pledged that France will donate more than 30 million vaccine doses by the end of the year to the U.N.-backed COVAX global vaccine initiative.South African mass vaccination campaign has begun slowly, with only 761,903 people vaccinated so far from a target of inocul Lejc High Fuel Prices Lead to Protests in Europe
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. AP 鈥?Florida school districts can legally require their students to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19, a judge ruled Friday, saying Gov. Ron DeS
stanley cup antis overstepped his authority when he issued an executive order banning such mandates.Leon County Circuit Judge John C. Cooper agreed with a group of parents who claimed in a lawsuit that DeSantis ; order is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced. The governor order gave parents the sole right to decide if their child wears a mask at school.Cooper said DeSantis ; order is without legal authority.His decision ca
stanley cup me after a three-day virtual hearing, and after 10 Florida school boards voted to defy DeSantis and impose mask requirements with no parental opt-out. Districts that have done so include Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, West Palm Beach and others. Cooper ruling will not go into effect until it is put into writing, which the judge asked the parents ; lawyers to complete by Monday.Cooper said that while the governor and others have argued that a new Florida law gives parents the ultimate authority to oversee health issues for their children, it also exempts government actions that are nee
adidas campus ded to protect public health and are reasonable and limited in scope. He said a school district decision to require student masking to prevent the spread of the virus falls within that exemption.The law doesn ;t ban mask mand
