AP News:拜登:4月19日前全美成年人都有资格接种新冠疫苗

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President Joe Biden is announcing that all adults in the country will be eligible to be vaccinated by April 19-two weeks earlier than previously announced. More than 28 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines will be delivered to states this week.

California plans to lift most coronavirus restrictions on businesses and workplaces on June 15. Officials say enough people should be vaccinated by then to allow for life almost to get back to normal. The mask mandate in the nation's most populated state will remain in effect.

The International Monetary Fund forecasted on Tuesday that COVID-19 vaccines and vast sums of government aid will accelerate economic growth to a record high this year. The group, comprised of 190 countries, says it expects the world economy to expand six percent this year.

A 56-year old social worker is breathing freely again three months after trachea replacement surgery, a first of its kind in the United States. Doctors at Mount Sinai Health System in New York say this drastic operation could potentially help other people, including COVID-19 patients left with serious windpipe damage from breathing machines.