President Donald Trump has appeared publicly with a facemask, an item he had said he wouldn’t wear.
Trump, who is facing a re-election obstacle, has been repeatedly criticized for his decision not to wear the face cover.
But when he was visiting the Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre outside Washington where he met wounded soldiers and frontline healthcare workers, he appeared with a facemask.
“I’ve never been against masks but I do believe they have a time and a place.
“When you’re in a hospital … where you’re talking to a lot of soldiers and people that, in some cases, just got off the operating tables.
“I think it’s a great thing to wear a mask,” he declared.
The US, which remains the epicenter of the coronavirus, has recorded more than three million infection and 134,000 deaths.
