{"id":7468,"date":"2020-12-05T07:22:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T07:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=7468"},"modified":"2020-12-05T07:22:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T07:22:10","slug":"corona-vaccination-will-not-be-mandatory-in-us-says-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2020\/12\/05\/corona-vaccination-will-not-be-mandatory-in-us-says-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Corona vaccination will not be mandatory in US, says Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><strong>Washington: United States (US) President-elect Joe Biden has said that citizens will not be forced to take a Covid-19 vaccine when one becomes available in the country.<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biden, who is due to take charge on January 20, would hold a low-key inaugural ceremony without large crowds due to coronavirus pandemic in country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;My guess is there&#8217;ll still be a platform ceremony but I don&#8217;t know how it&#8217;s all going to work out,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand, Pfizer and Moderna both have applied to US Food and Drug Administration to distribute their vaccines in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Wednesday, United Kingdom (UK) became the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer vaccine for widespread use.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reportedly, federal approval for coronavirus vaccine is almost &#8220;a week-and-a-half away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Pew Research Center says just 60% of Americans are currently willing to take a coronavirus vaccine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr Biden has also urged all Americans to wear mask all the time for 100 days as the country has entered \u201ca phase of high-level transmission&#8221; of the virus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">US recorded over 225,000 new positive cases and 2,500 deaths in one day. It has so far confirmed 14.3 million cases and more than 278,000 deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: United States (US) President-elect Joe Biden has said that citizens will not be forced to take a Covid-19 vaccine when one becomes available in the country. Biden, who is due to take charge on January 20, would hold a low-key inaugural ceremony without large crowds due to coronavirus pandemic in country. &#8220;My guess is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7470,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7468\/revisions\/7470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}