Watch live as Biden makes remarks on Delta variant and vaccines

Joe Biden is making a speech about the threat of the Delta variant to the country as well as the takeup of Covid vaccines against the virus with America still lagging behind many Western nations in their rate of vaccination.

Biden is expected to announce that all federal workers and contractors will be required to get the vaccine if they want to continue in their line of work.

The combination of the surge in Delta cases along with the disastrous pullout of US troops from Afghanistan has seen the president’s net job approval head south for the first time in his presidency.