Vice President Pence calls for wearing a mask 12:04 on June 29 due to a rapid increase in new corona infection
With more than 10 million people infected with the new-type coronavirus in the world, there is intense debate in the United States on whether to require masks in the southern and western states where the number of infected people is rapidly increasing. Meanwhile, Vice President Pence visited Southern Texas and called on residents to wear masks.
According to a summary by Johns Hopkins University, the number of people infected with the new coronavirus has exceeded 10 million worldwide, and the death toll has exceeded 500,000.
In the United States, where the number of infected people is the highest in the world, Vice President Pence visited the state of southern Texas, where the number of infected people is increasing, on the 28th, and got off from an airplane in a mask.
U.S. President Trump is known to be critical of wearing masks, but Vice President Pence said in a press conference: "In highly infected areas, wearing masks is highly recommended. It's especially good in places where it's difficult to take,” he stressed, and emphasized that masks are important to prevent the spread of infection.
In New York, etc., since April this year, individuals are obliged to wear masks in places where they can't keep a distance from other people, but Southern Texas and Florida, where the number of infected people is rapidly increasing, and The governor of Western Arizona said he had no intention of mandating individuals, and in some areas where masks were mandated, residents said to local governments that it was a violation of individual liberty. We are in a situation of intense protest.