US President, Donald
Trump, on Saturday declared that he will not wear a face mask.
This is despite new
medical guidance advising people in the country to do so.
Trump said that it
doesn’t look nice for him to be greeting “presidents, prime ministers,
dictators, kings, queens” in the Oval Office while wearing one.
He said the guidance
issued on Friday by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the
government’s public health advisory agency, on mask wearing in the US, is
voluntary.
“You do not have to
do it,” he said. “I don’t think I’m going to be doing it.”
278,458 cases of
COVIID-19 and more than 7,000 deaths have been confirmed in the US.
New York State
remains the worst affected area, with nearly 3,000 deaths, and state governor,
Andrew Cuomo has appealed for help from other parts of the country.
The country’s health
authorities had before now said that only the sick, or those caring for patients
of coronavirus, should wear masks, but newer studies suggest that covering up
one’s face is important to prevent inadvertent transmission.
Trump had told
reporters on Friday that “from recent studies we know that the transmission
from individuals without symptoms is playing a more significant role in the
spread of the virus than previously understood.”
But after announcing
the CDC’s new guidance he said: “I just don’t want to do it myself.”
“Sitting in the Oval
Office… I somehow don’t see it for myself.”
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