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3.57pm BST

Gabby Giffords, the former congresswoman who was shot in a 2011 mass shooting and has since become a prominent gun control advocate, will attend Joe Biden’s event at the White House today.

The president is expected to formally announce a series of actions his administration is taking to address gun violence. Vice-President Kamala Harris and attorney general Merrick Garland are also scheduled to deliver remarks.

Related: Biden to tackle gun violence with executive actions on ‘ghost guns’ and pistols

3.46pm BST

Calls are mounting for the Biden administration to set up a national tracking system of Covid-19 deaths among frontline healthcare workers to honor the thousands of nurses, doctors and support staff who have died and ensure that future generations are not forced to make the same ultimate – and in many cases needless – sacrifice.

Health policy experts and union leaders are pressing the White House to move quickly to fill the gaping hole left by the Trump administration through its failure to create an accurate count of Covid deaths among frontline staff. The absence of reliable federal data exacerbated critical problems such as shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) that left many workers exposed, with fatal results.

Related: Calls mount for Biden to track US healthcare worker deaths

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Source: The Guardian