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Vaccine coming to Marianas
The Marianas is expected to receive an initial shipment of 5,850 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine within days, enough to cover a first-priority group of healthcare workers, first responders, and high-risk patients.
Prospects for COVID relief
Negotiations continue to add unemployment extension, more school funding, and other COVID relief measures to a final spending bill for this year.
Extend unemployment assistance
The PUA and FPUC programs only cover unemployment that occurs in 2020. And unless Congress passes the next coronavirus aid package currently under negotiation, the PUA program will expire at the end of this month.
Trump blocks food for island kids
Congress provided the Marianas with asn additional $12-16 million in food aid for families with school-age children through the Pandemic EBT program in the continuing resolution signed into law in October.
