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US President Joe Biden announced that life would begin to return to normal this summer as he marked a year of U.S. shutdowns and death, ordering a further acceleration of the government’s efforts to end the pandemic.

According to the Bloomberg reports, in his first prime-time address to the country since his inauguration, the president directed states to make all US adults eligible for vaccinations by May 1, and he said his administration would reach his goal of 100 million shots in his first 100 days in office by his 60th day as president.

“We’re not only going to meet that goal, we’re going to beat that goal,” he said in remarks on the anniversary of the day a year ago when the World Health Organization declared a pandemic. “I need you to get vaccinated when it’s your turn and you can find an opportunity,” Biden said, as quoted but he source. 

He has previously said the administration expects to have enough vaccine by the end of May to vaccinate all US adults, though officials have warned that actually administering shots will take more time.

It is noted that Biden’s address was intended partly as a remembrance of the dark year the U.S. has suffered, with more than half a million people dead of Covid-19. At about the same time as the WHO declaration, Americans began to adopt social-distancing practices that would lead to the temporary collapse of the economy, throwing millions out of work.