Pandemic aid stalled in the Senate and Shanghai remained in lockdown: The week in Covid news. – NEW EXPRESS NEWS


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The federal government has run out of money to cover coronavirus vaccines, testing and treatment for uninsured Americans, but Congress has yet to approve more pandemic response funding. A bill that would allocate $10 billion for those purposes stalled on Tuesday when Senate Republicans refused to advance it without a vote to keep in place pandemic-era border restrictions that President Biden has moved to lift. Congress is now on a two-week break, so the stalemate means that final passage of aid that the Biden administration has said is urgently needed will slip until at least the last week of this...