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Images outside the White House in Washington DC, where US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are quarantining after testing positive for the novel coronavirus. IMAGES
President Joe Biden will give a primetime television address this week to mark the one year anniversary of the US lockdown ordered to mitigate the Covid-19 pandemic. In the address on Thursday, Biden will "discuss the many sacrifices the American people have made over the last year, and the grave loss communities and families across the country have suffered," says White House press secretary Jen Psaki. SOUNDBITE
The Biden administration will distribute more than 25 million masks across the United States to curb the spread of Covid-19, White House Covid-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients says during a news briefing. SOUNDBITE
Shortly after taking the presidential oath of office, US President Joe Biden tells Americans to come together as one nation in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, adding, "We're entering what may be the toughest and deadliest period of the virus." SOUNDBITE
Members of the National Guard patrol near the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, as US President-elect Joe Biden is due to host a memorial for victims of the coronavirus at the monument's Reflecting Pool. More than 400,000 people have died from Covid-19 in the United States since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University. IMAGES
The English variant, presumably more contagious, accounts for about 1% of positive Covid-19 tests in France, according to the preliminary results of a survey conducted over two days last week, says French's Health Minister Olivier Véran. SOUNDBITE
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