With the United States approaching half a million Covid-19 deaths, there are plans for President Joe Biden to mark the moment this week.
The president plans to make comments and hold a candlelit ceremony in the White House around sundown as soon as the threshold is crossed, a White House official said.
First Lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff will also participate.
At least 498,897 According to data from Johns Hopkins University, people have died of the coronavirus in the US. The nation has reported more than 28.1 million cases in total.
On Friday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the White House was planning so that the president could “use his own voice and platform to take a moment to remember the people whose lives have been lost, the families. who still suffer. ”
The day before taking office, Biden, Harris and their husbands held a gloomy ceremony at the National Mall to commemorate the more than 400,000 lives lost by Covid-19. “We must remember to heal,” Biden said at the time.