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Since entering office on Jan. 20, President Joe Biden has signed more than two dozen executive actions addressing the coronavirus pandemic, economy, immigration, climate crisis and more.

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Here's a look at all of his executive orders, and other notable executive actions, so far:

COVID-19 RESPONSE

Executive Order on Protecting Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing: Requires masks, physical distancing and other health measures while on federal property

Issued: Jan. 20

Read the order here

Executive Order on Organizing and Mobilizing the United States Government to Provide a Unified and Effective Response to Combat COVID-19 and to Provide United States Leadership on Global Health and Security: Establishes the position of a COVID-19 response coordinator within the executive office

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Issued: Jan. 20

Read the order here

© Jose F. Moreno/The Philadelphia Inquirer/AP Nursing home resident Lydu Trudeau receives a COVID-19 vaccine from pharmacist Nadine M. Mackey at PowerBack Rehabilitation, in Phoenixville, Pa., Dec. 28, 2020.

Rejoining the World Health Organization: Biden sends letter to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres revoking the United States' previous intention to withdraw from WHO amid the pandemic

Issued: Jan. 20

Read the letter here

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Executive Order on Promoting COVID-19 Safety in Domestic and International Travel: Requires masks on certain forms of domestic travel, including planes, trains, ferries and intercity buses, and requires those coming to the U.S. from a foreign country to provide proof of a recent negative COVID-19 test before arrival "to the extent feasible"

Members of the 116th Congress rail against social-media companies but posted to Twitter and Facebook a record 2.2 million times

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Issued: Jan. 21

Read the order here

Executive Order on Improving and Expanding Access to Care and Treatments for COVID-19: Accelerates the development of COVID-19 therapies -- in particular ones that can be "easily manufactured, distributed and administered" -- and provides surge assistance to critical care and long-term care facilities

Issued: Jan. 21

Read the order here

Executive Order on Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future High-Consequence Public Health Threats: Enhances data collection for public health threats such as COVID-19 by designating a senior official within several agencies to work on COVID-19 data issues, among other measures

Issued: Jan. 21

Read the order here

Executive Order on a Sustainable Public Health Supply Chain: Directs several agencies to review and assess the inventory of pandemic response supplies, such as personal protective equipment

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Issued: Jan. 21

Read the order here

Executive Order on Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery: Establishes a COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force within the Department of Health and Human Services to provide recommendations on mitigating health inequities caused by the pandemic

Issued: Jan. 21

Read the order here

Executive Order on Establishing the COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board and Ensuring a Sustainable Public Health Workforce for COVID-19 and Other Biological Threats: Establishes a COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board to coordinate federal COVID-19 testing efforts

Issued: Jan. 21

Read the order here

Executive Order on Protecting Worker Health and Safety: Reviews the Occupational Safety and Health Act to identify any changes to better protect works from COVID-19

Issued: Jan. 21

Read the order here

Executive Order on Supporting the Reopening and Continuing Operation of Schools and Early Childhood Education Providers: Directs the education secretary to assist states in deciding whether and how to safely reopen for in-person learning, and coordinates the collection of data to inform safely reopening and on the status of in-person learning

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"We have to make the most of the opportunity," Rep. Ro Khanna, former co-chair of Bernie's campaign, tells Salon Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ro Khanna and Joe Biden Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images

Issued: Jan. 21

Read the order here

© Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images, FILES Students sit with their laptop computers at St. Joseph Catholic School in La Puente, Calif., Nov. 16, 2020, where pre-kindergarten to Second Grade students in need of special services returned to the classroom today for in-person instruction.

ECONOMIC RELIEF

Pausing Federal Student Loan Payments: Directs the acting education secretary to pause federal student loan payments and collections and keep the interest rate at 0% (a pause was issued the following day)

Issued: Jan. 20

Read the directive here

Executive Order on Economic Relief Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Directs all executive agencies to consider actions to address the economic crisis resulting from the pandemic

Issued: Jan. 22

Read the order here

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WORKFORCE

Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce: Expands protections for federal workings, including putting federal agencies on a path to require a $15 minimum wage for contractors

Issued: Jan. 22

Read the order here

Executive Order on Ensuring the Future is Made in All of America by All of America's Workers: Increases the amount of federal spending that goes to American companies and orders an increase in domestic content

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Issued: Jan. 25

Read the order here

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CLIMATE CRISIS

Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis: Places a temporary moratorium on oil and gas activity in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, revokes the Keystone XL Pipeline permit, among other measures

Issued: Jan. 20

Read the order here

Acceptance of Paris Climate Agreement: The U.S. rejoins the Paris Climate Agreement, a global pact to reduce carbon emissions

Issued: Jan. 20

Read the statement here

IMMIGRATION

Executive Order on the Revision of Civil Immigration Enforcement Policies and Priorities: Revokes an executive order issued by former President Trump, which made sanctuary jurisdictions that did not comply with immigration enforcement measures ineligible to receive federal funding

Issued: Jan. 20

Read the order here

Executive Order on Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census: Requires that all residents of a state be counted in the census, regardless of immigration status

Issued: Jan. 20

Read the order here

Proclamation on Ending Discriminatory Bans on Entry to The United States: Revokes the so-called Muslim ban, which restricted foreign nationals from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S.

Issued: Jan. 20

Read the proclamation here

Preserving and Fortifying Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA): Directs the Department of Homeland Security to strengthen the regulation, which defers the removal of certain undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children

Joe Biden Signed More Executive Orders Than Trump, Obama Combined in Their First 12 Days

The new president has taken a number of actions to begin enacting his agenda and to reverse some of the moves of his predecessor.Since his inauguration, Biden has signed 25 executive orders—taking a raft of action to shape his agenda and to reverse moves taken by Trump which he disagreed with.

Issued: Jan. 20

Read the memorandum here

Proclamation on the Termination Of Emergency With Respect To The Southern Border Of The United States And Redirection Of Funds Diverted To Border Wall Construction: Halts construction and funding of the border wall

Issued: Jan. 20

Read the proclamation here

© Doug Mills/Pool/Getty Images Vice President Kamala Harris looks on as U.S. President Joe Biden signs executives orders related to his racial equity agenda in the State Dining Room of the White House, Jan. 26, 2021.

LGBTQ RIGHTS

Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation: Enforces sex discrimination protections within the federal government

Issued: Jan. 20

Read the order here

Executive Order on Enabling All Qualified Americans to Serve Their Country in Uniform: Revokes the Pentagon's ban on transgender people serving in the military

Issued: Jan. 25

Read the order here

MORE: Biden lifts Pentagon's ban on transgender people serving in military

RACIAL EQUITY AND RACISM

Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government: Includes various directives to promote allocating federal resources and government benefits

Issued: Jan. 20

Read the order here

Executive Order on Reforming Our Incarceration System to Eliminate the Use of Privately Operated Criminal Detention Facilities: Prevents the Justice Department from renewing contracts with private prisons

Issued: Jan. 26

Read the order here

MORE: Biden phases out federal use of private prisons as part of racial equity actions

Memorandum Condemning and Combating Racism, Xenophobia, and Intolerance Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States: Directs Health and Human Services secretary to mitigate "racially discriminatory language in describing the COVID-19 pandemic," among other measures

Issued: Jan. 26

Read the memorandum here

GOVERNMENT

Executive Order on Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Federal Regulation: Revokes six "harmful policies and directives" issued during the Trump administration to provide federal agencies more flexibility in using regulatory action to address "urgent challenges" such as the COVID-19 pandemic and economic recovery

Issued: Jan. 20

Read the order here

Executive Order on Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel: Requires every executive agency appointee to sign an "ethics pledge," which includes bans on gifts from lobbyists and "golden parachute" payments

Issued: Jan. 20

Read the order here

ABC News' Sarah Kolinovsky, Justin Gomez and Ben Gittleson contributed to this report.