President Joe Biden has announced that 90 per cent of the adults in the US would be eligible for COVID-19 vaccination by April 19 and the rest 10 per cent no later than May 1, amidst warning from a top expert that the country was facing an “impending doom”. Biden also urged state authorities to once again to make mask-wearing obligatory in public places to combat the disease as the “war is far from won”.

Biden’s announcement on the vaccination schedule came on a day when the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr Rochelle Walensky warned that the US faces “impending doom” as Coronavirus cases and hospital admissions rise across America, the worst-hit by the pandemic.