President Biden: Getting vaccinated is ‘gigantically important’

President Joe Biden interacts with members of the audience during a commercial break for a CNN town hall at Mount St Joseph University in Cincinnati (Andrew Harnik/AP)

President Joe Biden has expressed pointed frustration over the slowing Covid-19 vaccination rate in the US and pleaded that it is “gigantically important” for Americans to get inoculated against the virus as it surges once again.

Mr Biden, speaking at a televised town hall in Cincinnati, said the public health crisis has turned largely into a plight of the unvaccinated as the spread of the delta variant has led to a surge in infections around the country.