Donald Trump masked, a great first - atrick Semansky / AP / SIPA

We had to wait but patience being the mother of virtue, we took our expectations with both hands but that's it! President Donald Trump appeared for the first time on Saturday wearing a coronavirus protective mask in public, the day the United States recorded a new record of contamination.

This first masked appearance of the president, during a visit to the Walter Reed military hospital in the suburbs of Washington, has a strong symbolic value in the United States at a time when the epidemic is in full expansion especially in states of the south like Florida or Texas. The Covid-19 also continues to progress rapidly in Latin America, where the balance sheets have just exceeded 71,000 dead in Brazil, 11,000 in Chile and 11,000 also in Peru.

Refusal of the mask for the president

Since the virus appeared, Donald Trump had avoided showing himself in public with a mask, even though the wearing of this protection is recommended by the American health authorities. He had thus contributed to making this issue an issue of political controversy, because the refusal to wear the mask is seen in part of American society as an affirmation of the individual freedom of the citizen vis-à-vis the federal and international authorities.

On Saturday evening, Donald Trump put on a dark blue mask to visit wounded combat soldiers at the Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, near Washington.

Most affected country in the world

"When you talk to soldiers who have just come out of the operating table, I think it's very good to wear a mask," he told reporters before the visit. "I have never been against masks, but I am convinced that it depends on the time and the place."

The United States is by far the country most heavily affected by the pandemic with more than 134,000 dead - 134,729 according to the count made Saturday by Johns Hopkins University. According to figures from this university of Baltimore which refers, the country recorded a new record of contamination on Saturday with 66,528 cases in 24 hours.

Despite this disturbing development, part of the Disney World amusement park in Orlando, Florida, was reopened to the public on Saturday, after four months of closure. Hundreds of people lined up to go to the Magic Kingdom, one of the two spaces to welcome the public with the Animal Kingdom.

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