President-elect Joe Biden signalled on Sunday he plans to move quickly to build out his government, focusing first on the coronavirus pandemic that will likely dominate the early days of his administration, writes Euronews.

Biden named a former surgeon general, Dr Vivek Murthy, and a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner, David Kessler, as co-chairs of a COVID-19 working group set to get started, with other members expected to be announced Monday.

Transition team officials said that also this week Biden will launch his agency review teams, the group of transition staffers that have access to key agencies in the current administration to ease the transfer of power.

The teams will collect and review information such as budgetary and staffing decisions, pending regulations and other work in progress from the current staff at the departments to help Biden’s team prepare to transition.