Congress confronts new virus crisis rescue

Rescue plan: Patrons dine at an outdoor restautant along 5th Avenue in The Gaslamp Quarter in downtown San Diego, California. With Covid-19 cases hitting alarming new highs and the death roll rising, the pandemic’s devastating cycle is happening all over again, leaving Congress little choice but to engineer another costly rescue. — AFP

WASHINGTON: It stands as the biggest economic rescue in US history, the US$2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill swiftly approved by Congress in the spring. And it’s painfully clear now, as the pandemic worsens, it was only the start.

With Covid-19 cases hitting alarming new highs and the death roll rising, the pandemic’s devastating cycle is happening all over again, leaving Congress little choice but to engineer another costly rescue.