“Whether you like the mask or not, they have an impact, they have an effect, and we need everything we can get,” he said at White House in COVID-19 briefing.
Mr. Trump is one of the leaders in the world who resisted to wear a mask.
U.S. President Donald Trump in a formal move pulled out his country from the World Health Organization (WHO), as per reports.
He announced earlier on May 30 that the United States would withdraw from the World Health Organization over the agency’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Trump Announces U.S. Withdrawal from WHO
Prior to that, on early May, Pres. Trump threatened that he was permanently cutting off U.S. funding to the UN’s health agency, saying he will make his “temporary freeze of United States funding to the World Health Organization permanent and reconsider” the country’s “membership in the organization.”
The UN and Congress are now notified of his intentions, but a UN’s spokesman said the process could take effect at least a year.
A Reuters’ coronavirus tracker reported new 1,000 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday. The nationwide death tally in the U.S. is now 66,741 since the outbreak, whereas the overall tally of infection has risen to 3,916,922– the first highest number in the world.
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