According to this campaign schedule sent to reporters in the US, Vice-President Mike Pence is going to lead a coronavirus task force meeting on Monday afternoon - the first in weeks.

The meeting is being held on the same day President-elect Joe Biden is naming his own 12-member coronavirus task force, which he has said will be made up of "leading scientists and experts".

Although the US has been preoccupied with the election over the past week, Covid-19 hasn't gone anywhere. Rather, the US still has the world's highest death toll (more than 237,000) and number of cases (over 9.9m), and for the last few days has posted record single-day rises in infections.

Cases are continuing to spread among Trump administration officials, too. Earlier this week, Chief-of-Staff Mark Meadows tested positive for the virus, as did five other White House aides and a campaign staff member.

Progressive Senator Bernie Sanders, who you might remember ran to be the Democratic presidential nominee, has called for the electoral college to be abolished.

You might wonder why he's demanding this now, when a Democrat has just won the White House?

Well, as happened in 2016 when Donald Trump was elected, a candidate can win the national popular vote but lose the election. Hillary Clinton won nearly three million more votes than Trump but did not win the electoral college.

And it's Democrats who by and large have suffered at the hands of the electoral college in recent years - so it's in their interest to change the system so that whoever wins the popular vote goes to the White House.

In fact, the electoral college was nearly abandoned in 1970 when the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to replace it. A 1968 Gallup poll found that 80% of Americans also thought it was time to use the popular vote instead. But the effort failed when Senators from the southern American states - who benefit in the electoral college system - prevented it from going to a vote.

Since then, Republicans have increasingly benefitted from the system, meaning that by today, there is no longer a cross-party consensus on replacing it.

The BBC has been talking to voters around the US. Here, A'Kayla Sellers, a young African-American woman from South Carolina who fully supports Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, tells us how she is feeling:

This moment means so much to me because Biden is a glimmer of hope not just for Democrats, for all Americans.

To make America equitable we need a sense of stability and normalcy. It was empowering for me to vote for Biden in South Carolina but it's also discouraging because we are still a very Republican state.

When Biden's president, he's not going be a president for the Democrats. He has stated firmly that he is a president for all, he is going to be a president for America.

When he served as our vice-president, he was a vice-president to all. He's going to provide policies and opportunities that's going to affect everybody that's going to make living here in America more equitable.

He's here to help everyone, not just one party.

Hear more from A'Kayla and our other voter panelists here.

Another Rupublican voice has joined those calling for President Donald Trump to accept the result of the election.

Lawyer Ben Ginsberg, who helped spearhead George W Bush's legal strategy during the 2000 recount in the state of Florida, told CBS programme 60 Minutes that Trump needed to "take a step back, look at the results".

Addressing the president directly, he said: "It is a democracy. It is a country that's been very good to you.

"And you need to respect the institutions and the greatest institution of all is our elections that lead to the peaceful transfer of power. And you cannot be destructive of that."

Earlier on Sunday, Bush himself congratulated President-elect Joe Biden on his victory, adding that the outcome of the election was "clear".

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Much of the conversation on Chinese social media has centered around Trump and Biden over the last few days, but there is something else that has caught Weibo users' eyes - Kamala Harris' Chinese name. And the question on most people's lips is: why does she have one?

Most Western politicians are given Chinese names that are a literal phonetic translation - Biden, for example, is simply Bai Deng.

But Kamala's Chinese name - He Jin Li - is a name that sounds properly Chinese. And it's her official name.

According to news site SCMP, Kamala decided to adopt a Chinese name while running for district attorney in San Francisco in the early 2000s, after a Chinese-American friend suggested it could help her get some Chinese media coverage.

Her name, which refers to an "intricate beauty", was picked by the friend's father.

And its a good thing she picked it when she did as a new law introduced in San Francisco last year means candidates are now unable to use a Chinese name they pick for themselves, unless it's been in use for at least two years.

After Donald Trump turned out not to be speaking on the Mark Levin show earlier, you may be wondering if he has anything official planned for tomorrow instead.

The answer, according to this schedule released by the White House, is no.

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Asian stock markets traded higher on Monday as investors warmed to Joe Biden becoming the new US president.

Japan saw the biggest boost with its main index – the Nikkei 225 – rising 2% to hit a near-30 year high.

Stock markets in China, Hong Kong and Australia also saw healthy gains in early trading on Monday.

Investors don’t like uncertainty, and the drawn-out election race was taking its toll on sentiment.

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A bipartisan group of former White House officials has urged Trump to concede the election and allow them to "immediately begin the post-election transition process".

In a statement, the Center for Presidential Transition advisory board said: "This was a hard-fought campaign, but history is replete with examples of presidents who emerged from such campaigns to graciously assist their successors."

Among those who've signed the statement are Bush White House chief-of-staff Josh Bolten and Health and Human Services secretary Michael Leavitt, Clinton-era chief-of-staff Thomas McLarty, and Obama Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker.

The General Services Administration, a government agency that supports federal agencies, still hasn't formally recognised Joe Biden as president-elect.

Until they do this, Biden's team are unable to get the transition process going within government agencies, and money can't be freed up to prepare for the transfer of power.

We reported earlier that Donald Trump was going to speak publicly for the first time since Biden was declared the winner of the election, after he tweeted that he would discuss his allegations of electoral fraud on a right-wing radio show at 20:00 ET (01:00 GMT).

However, it doesn't sound as though he'll be making an appearance after all.

Joe Biden may have been declared the winner, but with Donald Trump refusing to concede and filing lawsuits across the country, it's clear that this election will be in the news for quite some time.

As a result, many of the UK's papers are splashing on the latest developments in Monday's editions.

Metro newspaper calls the outgoing president "Trump the Grump", and writes that he is "fuming" and "refusing to accept defeat".

The Telegraph also leads with Trump, and reports that Republican former president George W Bush has already congratulated Biden on his victory.

Meanwhile, the i ushers in the Biden era, by focusing on his first speech as president-elect in Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday.

You can see more UK front pages in our full story, here.

Biden has vowed a much more aggressive approach to the pandemic, after Trump repeatedly downplayed its gravity and resisted public health measures, including wearing masks and social distancing.

The president-elect said he would name a group of top scientists to his coronavirus task force as early as Monday.

As part of his plan, Biden wants more testing and said he will call on every American to wear a mask in public spaces.

Bringing a pandemic under control won't be easy, though.

When Biden takes charge, the pandemic will probably be at its peak in the country, former US Food and Drug Administration commissioner Dr Scott Gottlieb told CBS News, external.

Dr Gottlieb said the rate of new infections would probably be starting to decrease by late January.

Until then, "the only question is going to be how many people have died in the course of this and how many people have been infected", Dr Gottlieb said.

In the US just under 10 million have tested positive. The country has seen more than 125,000 new infections for three days in a row. The states of North and South Dakota have the highest rates of death per capita.

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As we know, Biden has been declared president-elect but Trump is still planning legal challenges to the results in some key states.

His lawyer Rudy Giuliani told Fox News that it would be wrong for Trump to concede because, he said, "there is strong evidence that this was an election that in at least three or four states, and possibly 10, it was stolen".

The Trump campaign is yet to provide any evidence to support those claims but says it plans to lodge lawsuits in several key states on Monday.

So what legal challenges exactly is Trump planning, and where? Our Reality Check team has broken it all down for us.

Biden’s projected win, though contested by President Trump, has reverberated across the nation.

Celebrations continued for a second day in many Democratic-leaning cities, as Biden supporters revelled in the victory.

Meanwhile Trump supporters held protests to complain about unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud that mirrored those made by the president.

On another rollercoaster day, these are some of the pictures that captured the drama of events.

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Donald Trump has tweeted that he's going to be speaking publicly for the first time since Joe Biden was declared the winner of the election.

He says he'll be talking to right-wing radio host Mark Levin at 20:00 ET (01:00 GMT).

From the looks of his tweet, it appears that he'll be repeating allegations of electoral fraud.

He has still not provided evidence to support these claims.

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BBC News, Atlanta

For the second day in a row, Trump supporters turned out in front of the Georgia state Capitol in Atlanta to protest the outcome of the US election.

They don't accept Joe Biden beat Donald Trump and believe unsubstantiated claims, pushed by the president, that the results were rigged. Georgia is going to a recount but that's unlikely to change anything.

Armed militiamen stood outside the Capitol dome, flanked with large guns. Down the street, a handful of cops told me they didn't not have a permit to be there but "when people show up, we have to deal with it."

On Saturday there were also counter protesters with Black Lives Matter armed on the other side of the street. On Sunday counter protesters shouted "you’re fired" at the Trump supporters.

Between the caravan of cars, biker gangs zoom through the streets of centre Atlanta that are rich with civil rights history. Although it's quite loud, the crowd is actually quite small, but there's no question emotions are high - of both joy and relief at a Biden win and anger and mistrust at a Trump loss.

Some harsh words coming from Anthony Scaramucci, former White House communications director under Trump. Speaking to the BBC, he criticised the president's campaign and response to the election results.

"The nonsense about him challenging the result is absolutely absurd," he said, "we'll be more wary of demagogues like this in the future."

So, Joe Biden has been projected to win the presidency. What now? Well he won't be in the White House on Monday morning. The US has one of the world's longest handover periods. It's not until 20 January 2021 that Biden will formally assume the duties of president and Donald Trump will officially vacate the White House.

Before then, the states need to certify the votes - but that's usually a formality.

And until 20 January, we are in what is called the transition period. Biden has already made a website and appointed a transition team. They will pick people to serve in the cabinet, discuss policy priorities and prepare to govern. Biden also plans to announce a coronavirus task force on Monday to focus on the pandemic.

Trump becomes what's called a lame-duck president - meaning he's been voted out of office but remains in the White House. He's still empowered to make decisions however, including sign pardons.

Read more about what happens now.

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Soon-to-be First Lady Jill Biden "is enormously grateful" to Americans for electing her husband Joe as the next president of the US, her spokesman has said.

"Joe Biden will be a president for all Americans,” the spokesman, Michael LaRosa, said on Sunday.

As the president-elect prepares for the White House, Jill Biden is spending time with her children and grandchildren in Wilmington, Delaware.

LaRosa said Jill Biden, a teacher with four degrees, was “focused on building her team and developing her priorities focused on education, military families and veterans, and cancer”.

The statement gives an insight into the issues Jill Biden wants to focus on when she and her husband of 43 years enter the White House.

While her husband served as vice-president under Barack Obama, Jill Biden continued to work as a professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College.

What else do we know about Jill Biden? You can read our profile of her to find out more.

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When he enters office in January, Biden is expected to sign a flurry of executive orders - measures that do not require legislative approval from Congress:

• Rejoin the Paris climate accords that aim to control climate change - the US in fact only left them on 4 November after Trump made it a promise in his 2016 campaign
• Reverse the US exit from the World Health Organization - Trump promised to leave during a row over the coronavirus pandemic
• Repeal Trump's ban on travel to the US from some Muslim-majority countries
• Reinstate DACA - a programme that deferred the threat of deportation for undocumented immigrants who entered the US as children

Read more about Biden's plans for office.

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Senior Republicans have urged President Trump not to concede the presidential election, as pressure for him to accept defeat builds even while he mounts legal challenges.

“This is a contested election. The media doesn’t decide who becomes president. If they did, you would never have a Republican president for forever, so we’re discounting them,” Republican Senator for South Carolina Lindsay Graham told Fox News on Sunday.

“President Trump should not concede.”

Graham said there were “allegations of system failure and fraud”, citing evidence of “six people in Pennsylvania registering after they died and voting after they died”.

Notwithstanding allegations of the odd irregularity, no evidence has emerged to substantiate Trump's claims of systemic fraud in the US voting system.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz echoed Graham’s sentiments on Fox News, asserting there were “serious disputes” in key states over the vote total.

“We should allow the legal process to move forward and when that process is concluded, which it will be in a matter of weeks, we will know who prevails in the election,” he said.

"But the fact that the big newsrooms in New York City want Donald Trump to lose, they don’t get to decide that. That’s a question for the voters.”

The media, including BBC News, projected the US election result based on voting data.