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Urging vigilance, sombre Biden tells states to speed up vaccination

US President Joe Biden delivers his first prime time address as president, marking the one-year anniversary of widespread shutdowns to combat the Covid-19 pandemic and speaking about the impact of the pandemic during an address from the East Room of the White House in Washington, US, March 11, 2021. [Reuters]

President Joe Biden said on Thursday he would direct US states to make all adults eligible for the coronavirus vaccine by May 1 and urged Americans in a televised address to stay vigilant against the virus, hours after he signed a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill into law. 

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