Biden looks to galvanise Covid-19 fight, vaccinations as he takes office

President Joe Biden will attempt to jump-start the federal government's response to the coronavirus pandemic with a string of immediate executive orders on Wednesday after his inauguration to lead a country reeling from its worst public health crisis in more than a century.
 

Biden takes office a day after the United States marked 400,000 deaths from Covid-19 since the pandemic broke out last March while vaccination programs have lagged far behind the target of 20 million Americans inoculated by the end of 2020.

"We're entering what may be the toughest and deadliest period of the virus and must set aside politics