WASHINGTON,USA.(News of the South)-US President Donald Trump has worn a face mask for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
By Karen Mhlanga
He was visiting the Walter Reed military hospital, where he met wounded soldiers and health care workers.
The president said, “I’ve never been against masks but I do believe they have a time and a place.”
He has been said to say he would never wear a mask and also went on to mock Democratic rival Joe Biden for doing so.
But this Saturday he said, “I think when you’re in a hospital, especially in that particular setting, where you’re talking to a lot soldiers and people that, in some cases, just got off operating tables, I think it’s a great thing to wear a mask.”
The change of tone came as the US recorded 66,528 coronavirus cases on Saturday.
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“I’m all for masks,” the president said.
But when the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) began recommending the wearing of masks in April the US president said he would not be following the practice.
He had problems with the issues of people touching their faces after touching their mask.
“They put their finger on the mask and they take off, then start touching their nose and mouth. And then they don’t know how they caught it,” he said.
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