This is a picture completely unedited. While the mask-wearing has become in recent weeks a real political issue, the United States, Donald Trump has appeared for the first time in public this Saturday wearing a protective mask. The american president is under pressure for weeks to give the example in the face of the explosion of the pandemic of Covid-19 in the United States. Donald Trump and a group of councillors wore black masks during a visit to the military hospital Walter Reed in Washington, where they met with wounded veterans, according to images of the tv channel CNN.

According to information of the media, advisers Donald Trump’s the beg for weeks to wear a mask in public, as recommended by the experts, and to show the example so that the epidemic of coronavirus is out of control in several States. The president, who downplays the severity of the pandemic, was until now reluctant to wearing a mask, like a large number of his supporters.

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Donald Trump had been told on July 1 that he does not see the usefulness of adopting this preventive measure, all the people that he meets, being, according to him tested in advance. He had, however, claimed that wearing the mask it would pose “no problem” if he was ” in a situation of close proximity with people “. The United States is by far the country most heavily affected by the pandemic, with more than 134 000 – 134 729, according to the counting done on Saturday by the Johns Hopkins university. According to figures from the university of Baltimore in which reference is made, the country recorded Saturday, a new record of contamination with 66 528 cases in 24 hours. Two-thirds of Americans disapprove of now the management of the pandemic by Donald Trump, according to a poll by ABC released on Friday, compared with a half in April. The polls for the election of 3 November to give a nine-point lead on average to his opponent, democrat Joe Biden.

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