Joe Biden, Wife to Receive Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine on Monday

US President-elect Joe Biden and wife Jill will be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus publicly on Monday in Delaware, said a spokesperson of Biden’s transition team announced.

The announcement was made on Friday night by Jen Psaki, the Biden administration’s White House Press Secretary. According to the team, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will receive her vaccine next week.

The announcement came the same day that a number of high-ranking US officials were vaccinated against the disease. On Friday morning, Vice President Mike Pence, Second Lady Karen Pence and Surgeon General Jerome Adams also received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination on live TV, in a bid to instill confidence among Americans.

The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is now being administered to millions of healthcare workers and in nursing homes, which have borne the maximum burden of the US outbreak.

For Moderna, the US FDA approval is a world first. The US government has ordered at least 200 million Moderna doses at a time when the country is getting hammered by the pandemic winter surge. Deaths in the US are at record highs, crossing 3,000 per day at a steady clip.