Only 14,000 votes or 0.3 per cent put Biden ahead in the official count in Georgia and officials have said that a manual recount of the postal ballots was required before a final declaration can be made.
If Biden is officially declared the winner in Georgia, he will be the first Democrat since Bill Clinton in 1992 to take the state that has been Republican bastion.
A spokesperson for the Biden transition, Jen Psaki, complained during a briefing that they did not have access "to the ongoing work on Covid, so that we can prepare to govern" or to national intelligence briefing and other important information.
Legally a president-elect has to be given official facilities for transitioning into the office and access to briefings.
But Emily Murphy, the head of the General Services Administration that should make the arrangements, is waiting for an official confirmation of the election result.
States have until December 14 to officially declare the results.
Trump has been claiming that the elections have been rigged and has filed cases in several places.
In Michigan and in Pennsylvania judges dismissed on Friday cases brought the Trump campaign.
Trump retweeted claims in friendly media about "millions of votes" being switched or lost.
But election officials around the country have denied there was fraud or irregularity on that scale.
The claim of millions is too far-fetched, but some scattered problems have been reported. In Georgia and Michigan, there were problems with reporting of the votes, but officials said they were due to human errors. In Pennsylvania, some postal votes for Trump were found discarded.
A writer in the Las Vegas Review reported testing the system for checking signatures for postal ballots to ascertain if they were genuine by signing and sending in ballots of nine people who participated in the test and found that eight of them were accepted.
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