President-elect Joe Biden said he will nominate California attorney general Xavier Becerra for secretary of health and human services on Monday as one of the top officials on his team to fight the raging Covid-19 pandemic.
Biden chose Becerra, 62, a Latino former congressman, as he faces more pressure to add diversity to his cabinet appointments. Becerra will lead the health agency as officials struggle to contain a resurgence of the novel coronavirus, including record infections and a daily death toll that has exceeded 2,000 in recent days.
“This team of world-class medical experts and public servants will be ready on Day One to mobilise every resource of the federal government to expand testing and masking,” Biden said in a statement, adding that they would “oversee the safe, equitable, and free distribution of treatments and vaccines”.
More than 282,000 Americans have died from Covid-19, according to a Reuters tally. Authorities in California, the most populous state in the country with about 40 million residents, on Monday compelled much of the state to close shop and stay at home the day after it reported a record 30,000-plus new cases.
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