Trump finally dons mask, US sets new virus case record

US President Donald Trump wears a mask as he visits Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland' on July 11, 2020.BETHESDA - 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.

"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. In Florida, where nearly one in six of those new infections were recorded, the Walt Disney World theme park partially reopened after four months of shutdown prompted by the virus.

The United States is the country worst hit by the illness, followed by Brazil -- which surpassed 70,000 deaths on Friday.WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on countries to adopt an aggressive approach to tackling the virus, citing successful mitigation efforts in Italy, South Korea and elsewhere.

Elsewhere, French officials warned of rising cases in metropolitan France as the death toll there topped 30,000.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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