Psaki: Biden’s Speech Tomorrow Won’t Be About Locking Down Country

White House press secretary Jen Psaki talks to reporters during the daily press conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, on Dec. 6, 2021. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed that President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 speech on Tuesday will not involve a push for lockdowns over the spread of the Omicron variant.

Biden “will issue a stark warning” to people who haven’t yet received a COVID-19 vaccination, Psaki said. But the president, she said, will not be a push for locking down over the variant, which has caused few deaths worldwide.