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US President Donald Trump will speak publicly for the first time since losing the election to Joe Biden six days ago.
Trump is said to be about to issue a statement on Operation Warp Speed, which relates to the development of a Covid-19 vaccine and the United States’ efforts to combat the pandemic.
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President Donald Trump (File photo).
In other breaking news, Trump won North Carolina and its 15 electoral votes, avoiding a close challenge by Democratic candidate Joe Biden and keeping the battlefield for Republicans.
Trump’s victory in North Carolina leads him to 232 electoral votes. Biden, who was declared the winner of the election on November 7, has 290 electoral votes and defeated Trump by switching to Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona.
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The Associated Press news agency, from which Stuff is taking the results of the US elections, has not yet called the presidential race in the state of Georgia, which is conducting a recount.
The goal of Operation Warp Speed is to produce and administer 300 million doses of safe and effective vaccines with starting doses available by January 2021, as part of a broader strategy to accelerate the development, manufacture and distribution of Covid vaccines- 19, therapies and diagnostics, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services.
