The virus has infected more than 14.6 million people and killed over 600,000 of them since it first emerged in China, with fresh alarm being sounded over its accelerating spread in Africa.
But he changed direction on Monday, tweeting a photo of himself wearing a mask with the message: “We are United in our effort to defeat the Invisible China Virus, and many people say that it is Patriotic to wear a face mask when you can’t socially distance.”“There is nobody more patriotic than me, your favourite president!”
“I’m still struggling to pay the bills and I’m still looking for a job,” said Diana Yitbarek, 44, who has been unemployed since April.Across the Atlantic, European leaders agreed on a landmark stimulus package worth 750 billion euros to help pull the bloc out of the deepest recession in its history.
“Deal!” tweeted EU Council Chief Charles Michel, whose job was to guide the talks, which saw strong resistance from some countries against sending money to nations they consider too lax with public spending. “I am very concerned right now that we are beginning to see an acceleration of disease in Africa,” he added.
A separate trial in China involving more than 500 people showed most had developed widespread antibody immune response.
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