Joe Biden warns pandemic ‘darkest days’ are yet to come

The elected president, Joe biden, he warned that the “darkest days” of the Coronavirus pandemic they are yet to come and he has asked Congress to be ready early next year to approve another economic stimulus package, which took months to finalize this year.

“The darkest days of our battle against COVID-19 are coming, not behind us”Biden said at a year-end press conference in Wilmington, Delaware.

Biden noted that the country must support state and local governments, whose resources plummeted during the pandemic, in addition to providing other economic stimuli.

Biden and his wife received the live Pfizer coronavirus vaccine

“Congress has done its job this week and I can, and must, ask them to do it next year,” he said. That’s because Congress passed the second economic bailout in U.S. history on Monday as part of a massive year-end spending bill. for a total of US $ 900,000 million.

In addition to funding government operations for the remainder of the fiscal year, the legislation will provide small business assistance, additional unemployment benefits and stimulus payments to $ 600 to most Americans and their children from next week. It also includes funds for schools, airlines and for vaccine distribution.

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More than 18 million Americans have been infected with the virus and more than 321,000 have lost their lives. The vaccines started being administered last week and the first to receive them have been first responders, lawmakers and some seniors.

Biden, 78, was vaccinated on Monday on a live television broadcast, while Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will do so next week.