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Anonymous ID: 0c5510 May 15, 2020, 6:20 a.m. No.9182815   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3033 >>3383 >>3421

White House preparing executive order requiring certain essential drugs be made in US, sources say

 

The White House is preparing an executive order which will require certain essential drugs be made in the U.S., sources told CNBC on Thursday.

One of the sources told CNBC’s Kayla Tausche the order could come out as soon as Friday. The applicable timeframe for a review will be 90 days, the sources said.

 

The White House is preparing an executive order which will require certain essential drugs be made in the U.S., two sources familiar with the matter told CNBC on Thursday.

 

One of the sources told CNBC’s Kayla Tausche the order could come out as soon as Friday. The applicable time frame for reviewing the order will be 90 days, the sources said.

 

The administration has a wide-ranging supply chain effort underway for products in a variety of sectors seen as national security issues, including drugs, medical supplies, semiconductors and defense equipment, the sources said.

 

About 72% of pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturers supplying the U.S. are located overseas, including 13% in China, according to an October congressional testimony by Janet Woodcock, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.

 

Although it is unclear whether it is the same executive order President Donald Trump’s trade advisor Peter Navarro is pushing for, Navarro has previously said he wanted an executive order that would reduce U.S. dependency on foreign-made drugs.

 

“This Big Pharma spin is simply a desperate attempt to stop President Donald J. Trump from moving the production of our essential medicines and medical equipment and supplies to the U.S,” Navarro told CNBC in an interview in which he spoke out against Big Pharma’s attempts to lobby against his executive order.

 

The executive order Navarro is planning will streamline regulatory approvals for “American-made” products and look to impose similar FDA restrictions on U.S. facilities as those abroad. It will also encourage the U.S. government, including the Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Veterans Affairs, to only buy American-made medical products.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/14/white-house-preparing-executive-order-requiring-certain-essential-drugs-be-made-in-us-sources-say.html

Anonymous ID: 0c5510 May 15, 2020, 6:29 a.m. No.9182914   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2919

Slovenia has become the first European country to declare its domestic coronavirus outbreak officially over.

 

The country’s government confirmed in a statement on Friday that its Covid-19 epidemic had ended, after Slovenia’s National Institute of Public Health concluded “all indicators point to a slowdown in the spread of the virus in the population.”

 

According to data from Slovenia’s Ministry of Health, just one new case of the coronavirus was confirmed on Thursday, with no deaths reported. Over the past two weeks, just 35 people had been infected with the coronavirus, according to the health authority, while the reproductive number for the virus — known as the R rating or R0 — was below 1.

 

An R below 1 means each infected individual will on average transmit the virus to less than one other person.

 

On Thursday, Prime Minister Janez Jansa told the country’s parliament that Slovenia “has the best epidemiological picture in Europe.”

 

Despite declaring an end to the epidemic, the Slovenian government said it would keep measures such as widescale testing, contact tracing and bans on public gatherings in place pending a review on May 31. It will also remain mandatory to wear face coverings in public spaces until at least the end of the month.

 

However, Slovenia will relax some of the measures it had put in place at its borders to prevent the virus being imported from abroad.

 

EU citizens who enter the country will no longer be required to quarantine, provided they have not recently left the European Union for a period of more than two weeks. All other foreign nationals who enter Slovenia will be required to quarantine for 14 days.

 

Slovenians who have symptoms of Covid-19 or state that they have tested positive for the virus will be instructed by police to contact medical personnel immediately, while foreign citizens who have the virus will not be permitted to cross the border.

 

Slovenia, which has a population of just over 2 million people, shares borders with Italy, Austria, Hungary and Croatia. So far, the country has a total of 1,464 confirmed infections with 103 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.