Africa Business Radio

US President Joe Biden has announced a series of measures to boost vaccination rates against COVID-19 in the United States, including requiring federal employees to get inoculated and mandating that large employers ensure their workers are vaccinated or tested weekly for the virus.Biden voiced dismay that some Americans were refusing to take the vaccine amid a jump in cases and deaths from the virus largely driven by unvaccinated people.Biden condemned what he called pandemic politics saying that the new requirements aim to reduce the number of unvaccinated people in the US.He said about 80 million eligible people have yet to have a single vaccine shot