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Trump Seen Wearing Facemask In Public For First Time

US President Donald Trump wears a mask as he visits Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland’ on July 11, 2020. (Photo by ALEX EDELMAN / AFP)

 

 

US President Donald Trump wore a facemask in public for the first time Saturday, yielding to intense pressure to set a public health example as the coronavirus rampages across America.

Trump had on a black mask as he walked through the corridors of Walter Reed military hospital outside Washington to meet with wounded veterans, according to television news footage.

 

 

 

-AFP

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