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According to the latest data from this Baltimore-based university, published Saturday at 8:30 p.m. local time (00:30 Greenwich Mean Time), a total of 3,242,073 infections have been confirmed in the United States since the start of the pandemic. The number of deaths from the infection is 134,729, compared to 760 the previous day.
In the United States, four of the past five days have been confirmed by more than 60,000 people each day. New cases of COVID-19.
On Saturday, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, wore a protective face mask in public for the first time since the start of the pandemic. The President donned the mask while visiting the Walter Reed Military Hospital, where he met with wounded veterans.
The American leader has been repeatedly criticized in the past by political opponents who said the president is setting a bad example for citizens by attending public events without a mask.
As the media reported this week, aides were practically begging the president to come down and wear a face mask in a public place at a time when the number of new cases of the virus was growing rapidly in some states in the country.
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