(CNN) President Joe Biden will deliver his first primetime address this Thursday, commemorating the milestone of one year since the global pandemic coronavirus shut down much of the nation. "The President will deliver his first primetime address to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Covid-19 shutdown on Thursday. She said Biden looks forward to "highlighting the role that Americans will play in beating the virus and moving the country toward getting back to normal." Then-President Donald Trump addressed the nation from the Oval Office on March 11, 2020, hours after the World Health Organization declared coronavirus a global pandemic. It came days after he signed an $8.3 billion emergency spending bill aimed at fighting the virus, which Trump described as a "foreign virus."

Source: CNN March 08, 2021 17:26 UTC