The new US president, Joseph Biden, signed 10 new decrees tonight on measures to improve the fight against the coronavirus.
Biden, who took office yesterday, said that anyone coming to the US by plane should be tested for the coronavirus before departure and quarantined upon arrival, France Press reports.
In one decree, he ordered the mandatory wearing of a mask for passengers on ships, planes, trains, buses and public transport.
He ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to reimburse states for some of the costs associated with their fight against the coronavirus and to provide funding for reopening schools.
He also ordered that Agency to start establishing vaccination centers, and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to start a program that should enable the delivery of vaccines through local pharmacies starting in February, according to the Associated Press.
Biden wants 100 million doses of vaccines to be given in the first 100 days of his term.
He promised mobilization "in time of war" against the coronavirus and criticized the current vaccine distribution process as a "terrible failure".
In the US, more than 400.000 people have died from the coronavirus.
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