US President-elect Joe Biden has suggested all Americans not to travel during the Christmas and New Year holidays so as to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

The coronavirus has thus far infected 13,921,374 people and claimed 273,799 lives in the US,  both the numbers highest in the world. "You cannot be travelling during these holidays. As much as you want to," Biden told a group of workers and small business owners in Wilmington, Delaware. "Christmas is going to be a lot harder,” he said during the virtual roundtable.

The remarks were made several days after Thanksgiving, during which millions of Americans travelled, and some three weeks before Christmas, reports said.

Biden highlighted his own small gathering during Thanksgiving, which broke a decades-old tradition of large family gatherings and asked Americans to heed the advice of public health experts and pass on large get-togethers later this month. Biden and Redfield's warnings come as the US is presently the worst-hit country by the covid pandemic with the highest number of cases and fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.

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