Trump finally dons mask as US sets new virus case record

📆 2020/07/12 12:22:00
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President Donald Trump finally yielded to pressure and wore a face mask in public for the first time on Saturday as the US posted another daily record for coronavirus cases, while Disney World reopened in a state hit hard by the pandemic.

White House experts leading the national fight against the contagion have recommended wearing face coverings in public to prevent transmission of the illness.

"I've never been against masks but I do believe they have a time and a place," he told reporters as he left the White House. The country posted yet another daily record of confirmed cases on Saturday night, with 66,528 new infections, while the death toll rose by almost 800 to nearly 135,000. Days earlier, top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said that Florida had begun reopening before meeting the criteria that would have enabled it to do so safely.

"Across all walks of life, we are all being tested to the limit," he told a virtual news conference in Geneva on Friday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted a decision to allow bars and other businesses to reopen may have come"too soon" after his country reported a record 1,500 new infections on Friday.

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