WILMINGTON, Delaware — President-elect Joe Biden will convene a task force on Monday to craft a plan for tackling the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and hailed progress on a vaccine, while President Donald Trump steadfastly refused to acknowledge his defeat. ADVERTISEMENTHe labeled as “great news” Pfizer Inc’s announcement on Monday that its experimental COVID-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective. Pfizer and German partner BioNTech SE are the first drugmakers to release successful data from a large-scale clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine. Vice President Mike Pence is due to meet on Monday with the White House coronavirus task force for the first time since October. Asked when Trump would concede or call Biden, Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller on Monday told Fox Business Network: “That word’s not even in our vocabulary now.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 09, 2020 15:15 UTC