US President-elect Joe Biden plans to kick off his new administration on Wednesday with orders to restore the United States to the Paris climate accord and the World Health Organisation, reported AFP, quoting Biden’s aides.

According to the aides, Biden will be signing 17 orders and actions hours after being sworn in as the president to break from policies of departing President Donald Trump and set new paths on immigration, the environment, fighting COVID-19 and the economy.

In first-day moves, Biden will end Trump’s ban on visitors from several majority-Muslim countries as well as halt construction of the wall that Trump ordered on the US-Mexico border in an attempt to stem illegal immigration.

He will also set a mask mandate on federal properties to stem the spread of coronavirus; restore protections of nature reserves removed by Trump; and seek freezes on evictions and protection for millions behind on their mortgages due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Along with these reforms, Biden also plans to send a bill to Congress to revamp immigration policies and give millions of undocumented migrants living in the country a path to citizenship that the Trump administration denied.

In a statement, the aides said that Biden “will take action — not just to reverse the gravest damages of the Trump administration — but also to start moving our country forward.”