The elite investment bank, which faced complaints about long hours from a small group of junior bankers earlier this year, said in a memo to employees Tuesday that U.S. workers should make plans to be able to return to the office major employers such as Ford, Google and Target, Goldman also isn’t telling workers that some kind of hybrid schedule will be its new routine. Nor is it defining the sort of three-days-in, two-days-remote setup many workplace experts predicted

America is entering a “new phase” of its coronavirus vaccination strategy, President Biden announced Tuesday — the same day the country’s number of reported infections dropped to its lowest point in seven months.

“The light at the end of the tunnel is actually growing brighter and brighter,” Biden said in afternoon remarks from the White House.

The president said his administration will aim to have administered at least one shot to 70 percent of U.S. adults by July 4. He wants 55 million more people fully vaccinated during that span. The challenge, Biden said, will be continuing to persuade the hesitant.

“I know there’s a lot of misinformation out there,” Biden said. “But there’s one fact I want every American to know: People who are not fully vaccinated can still die every day from covid-19.”

The update on the state of the pandemic came as the country reached a promising landmark: fewer than 50,000 new cases per day on average. It is the first time in 208 days that the daily average of infections dropped to that level, according to a Washington Post analysis.

Here are some significant developments:
India became the second country in the world to tally more than 20 million total virus cases when the government announced 357,000 new infections and an additional 3,449 deaths on Tuesday. The first was the United States.
House Democrats increased pressure on the White House to support the temporary suspension of patent protections on vaccines, releasing a letter signed by 110 members calling on Biden to “restore America’s public health leadership on the world stage.”
The White House told states that coronavirus vaccine supply they leave unordered will become available to other states — the most significant shift in domestic vaccine distribution since Biden took office and part of an effort to address flagging demand in some areas of the country.
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to expand emergency authorization to allow children as young as 12 to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine by next week, according to federal officials familiar with the development.
Pfizer said Tuesday it expects global sales of its coronavirus vaccine to reach $26 billion in 2021, a milestone that would make it the biggest-selling pharmaceutical product in the world and that helps show why Pfizer is planning to expand use of mRNA technology for other vaccines and therapies.
The rolling average for daily vaccinations in the United States has fallen to its lowest point in more than seven weeks. The nation is administering about 2.3 million shots per day, the lowest since March 11. Daily vaccinations peaked in mid-April at nearly 3.4 million per day.