President Biden is also bringing back longtime Democratic strategist Anita Dunn as his senior adviser.
She said she will follow guidance from the CDC and no longer accompany President Biden to Belgium and Poland.
President Biden will hold face-to-face talks with European leaders about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The outbreak from this latest strain has required the federal government to get more aggressive in addressing the likely wave of infections.
President-elect Biden announced Sunday who would be apart of his senior communications team at his White House. All of the members of the team are female.
The State Department says it has no record of Hillary Rodham Clinton signing a statement attesting that she had turned over all unclassified documents related to official business when she left her post as secretary of state in 2013.
The United States later this month is sending its highest level delegation to Cuba in decades for talks on migration and normalizing ties.
The U.S. State Department has confirmed that three Americans were among those killed in an attack Tuesday at a synagogue in Israel.
The Obama administration intends to work with the new Palestinian government despite Israeli concerns it gives power and influence to the radical Hamas movement.
The U.S. is looking into whether a toxic chemical was deployed on areas of Syria that are controlled by rebel forces seeking to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad.