The impact of a new Covid vaccine will kick in significantly over summer and life should be back to normal by next winter, one of its creators has said.
Joe Biden has spent these early days as President-elect pleading with Americans to pay attention to the relentless surge of Covid-19 -- with deaths averaging more than 1,000 a day in the past week -- as President Donald Trump continues to ignore the deepening crisis and touts the promises of yet-to-be-approved vaccines as his panacea.
The US states of Oregon and New Mexico have announced strict measures to curb the spread of Covid-19 as the country faces growing outbreaks of the disease.
Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, has accused regional government forces in Tigray of carrying out a massacre on Monday which Amnesty International says may have killed hundreds of civilians.
US federal election officials have said the 2020 White House vote was the "most secure in American history", rejecting President Donald Trump's fraud claims.
Corey Lewandowski, who was Trump's first campaign manager in 2016 and is now helping lead the legal effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election result, has tested positive for Covid-19.
Pennsylvania - the state of Joe Biden's birth - handed the president-elect his victory, with major news organisations projecting him to have clinched its 20 electoral votes on Saturday.
