Inauguration Day 2021: Live updates as Joe Biden is sworn in as president

Follow along with The Post’s Inauguration Day 2021 coverage on Wednesday as President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are sworn in.

The usual massive crowds and most in-person performances will be absent amid the coronavirus pandemic and concerns of violence, but the day still promises a packed schedule — including a virtual parade and televised concert.

President Biden quotes Abraham Lincoln from the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1983.

“If my name ever goes down in the history, it will be for this act, and my whole soul is in it,'' President Lincoln said in signing the document that freed slaves.

Biden talked of today's struggles with COVID-9, saying, “A once-in-a-century virus that silently stalks the country has taken as many lives in one year as America lost in all of World War II.

“Millions of jobs have been lost, hundreds of thousands of businesses closed.''

He added of the country's race tensions, “A cry for racial justice some 400 years in the making moves us, the dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer.