Joe Biden announces the creation of a group of experts on Covid-19
Joe Biden is about to speak in Wilmington on November 4, 2020. The mask-wearing debate marked the start of a particularly frontal presidential campaign.
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This panel of “renowned experts” will be appointed on Monday and will have to set up an operational plan for January 20, 2021, the day of the inauguration of the new president.
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He hammers it in every
speech
: the fight against the pandemic against Covid-19, which has killed 237,000 people in the United States will be his first priority.
To do this, Joe Biden announced that he would set up a coronavirus crisis unit on Monday, November 9, bringing together “
renowned scientists and experts
” to fight the main challenge currently facing the US executive.
"On
Monday, I will set up a group of scientists and experts
" to work "
on a plan that will come into force on January 20, 2021
", the day of his inauguration, said the president-elect in front of a crowd supporters gathered in Wilmington, Delaware to celebrate his victory.
In this presidential election week, the country has recorded a marked increase in the epidemic, with record numbers of new infections for several days.
The United States recorded more than 122,000 new positive cases of Covid-19 on Saturday in 24 hours, according to an AFP count made at 8:30 p.m. local using figures from Johns Hopkins University, which is the reference.
At the same time, 991 people have died from the virus in the United States, by far the most bereaved country in the world.
The world's leading power recorded a total of more than 237,000 deaths on Saturday evening since the start of the pandemic, and 9.8 million cases.
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