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Central Texas higher education institutions and students are set to receive more than $250 million from the latest federal pandemic relief package.

WASHINGTON — Texas is set to receive $15.8 billion in new coronavirus relief aid, with billions more headed to its cities and counties as the Biden administration on Monday rolled out the latest round of stimulus funding meant to help them bounce back from the pandemic’s economic punch, which led local governments in the U.S. to cut over a million jobs.

The Biden administration supports temporarily lifting intellectual property protections for coronavirus vaccines and will move forward with international discussions to waive them, its top trade negotiator said on Wednesday.

In a significant move to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. government agreed to support a controversial proposal to temporarily waive intellectual property rights for vaccines in a bid to increase global supplies of desperately needed doses.

Pressure is mounting on the Biden administration to back a waiver for COVID-19 vaccine patents or take other action to share more doses with other countries amid a global surge in cases.

Local school districts are praising the governor for releasing $11.2 billion dollars in federal COVID relief funds.

The White House is changing how it distributes vaccines to states. President Biden set a goal of getting 70 percent of the population at least partially vaccinated by July 4, and Pfizer projects tens of billions of dollars in revenue from its coronavirus shot.

Kavita Tewari says she is haunted each day by the howl of ambulance sirens ringing through the streets near her home in New Delhi, India. For her and countless others in the South Asian country, the recent spike in coronavirus cases and deaths has been a crisis like nothing else she has experienced before.