US President-elect Joe Biden has announced a $1.9tn (£1.4 trillion) stimulus plan for the Coronavirus-sapped US economy before he takes office next week.
If passed by Democrats-dominated Congress, it would include $1 trillion for households, with direct payments of $1,400 to all Americans.
The relief proposal includes $415 billion to fight the virus and $440 billion for small businesses.
Mr Biden, a Democrat, has promised to beat the pandemic that has killed more than 385,000 people in the US.
He campaigned last year vowing to do a better job handling the virus than outgoing President Donald Trump, a Republican.
The direct payments of $1,400 would come on top of $600 payments provided in a relief bill enacted last month.
Mr Biden’s proposal comes as a winter surge of the Coronavirus breaks records.
Each day brings well over 200,000 new cases in the US and the daily death toll sometimes tops 4,000. (BBC NEWS)
