Trump’s campaign “vigorously” encourages facial masks at an outdoor rally in New Hampshire.

President Donald Trump will hold an outdoor rally in New Hampshire next weekend, his campaign announced Sunday. After the recent events organized by the president in which facial masks were markedly absent, this time the campaign said that facial masks will be handed out and their use will be “highly recommended” among attendees. “There will be wide access to the hand sanitizer and all attendees will receive a face mask that they are recommended to wear,” the campaign said in a press release. Before his demonstration in Tulsa last month, Trump had notably refused to endorse the use of face masks. “I recommend that people do what they want,” he said.

The President’s rally will gather supporters at Portsmouth International Airport and mark the first campaign event for the President since the rare event in Tulsa last month. Several members of the campaign and Secret Service staff have tested positive for coronavirus since that concentration. On Friday, Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of Trump’s oldest son and a leading campaign fundraiser, tested positive for the virus. She had attended the Tulsa rally. Her diagnosis was made public days after Herman Cain, the former Republican presidential candidate who was also at the rally, was hospitalized with the coronavirus on Wednesday.

Facial masks were few and far between on Friday when Trump addressed a crowd of followers on Mount Rushmore. There also seemed to be no effort to socially distance any of the attendees. The next day at the White House, few who attended the Independence Day celebration wore masks either.

The New Hampshire rally will take place in one of the few states reporting a decrease in coronavirus cases. A total of 39 states are seeing increases in coronavirus cases and 15 states have reported record increases this month, as some areas are grappling with an increase that authorities warn is becoming difficult to manage. Hospitals in Houston, for example, could be overwhelmed in about two weeks if cases continue to rise, the city’s mayor warned. “The number of people who get sick and go to hospitals has increased exponentially. The number of people in our ICU beds has increased exponentially, “said Mayor Sylvester Turner on CBS ‘ Face the Nation. “In fact, if we don’t deal with this virus quickly, in about two weeks our hospital system could be in serious trouble.” Austin Mayor Steve Adler gave a similar diagnosis on CNN State of the union. “If we don’t change this trajectory, I am within two weeks of the invasion of our hospitals,” he said.

The mayors of Austin and Houston were among local leaders who attributed the increase in cases to early reopens and people who quickly returned to normal life. “There is no doubt that when we reopened, people began to socialize as if the virus did not exist,” said Miami Mayor Francis X. Suarez. “It is extremely worrying.”