The Department of Health of the American State of Florida has reported this Saturday more than 10,300 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours. The balance details 10,328 new infections by the virus and 90 deaths, which bring the total number of cases to 337.569. The total number of deceased is 4.895. Of the current cases, a total of 9,162 are hospitalized in the state, one of the most affected by the pandemic in the country.
The news comes the day when the main scientific responsible in the fight against the coronavirus in the United States, Anthony Fauci, has asked this Friday to governors and mayors of the country to be “as forceful as possible“to get the population to use face masks to slow the advance of the pandemic. “When you are living your life and trying to open the country, you will be in contact with people. And for that reason, we know that masks are really important and we should use them everywhere“Fauci said during a virtual event of the American Chamber of Commerce.
In his opinion, the population needs to understand that the context derived from the COVID-19 pandemic puts people in a “very serious situation“that needs communities to work together.” If we could get that more people understand this, hopefully we will get more people to be willing to wear a mask, “he insisted during the event, as reported by the CNN television channel. He also assured that the United States, the country most hit by the pandemic in the world, you need to focus on more “current” problems, instead of worrying about a hypothetical second wave of COVID-19 infections. “When there is even 70,000 new infections (…) that is something to focus on now, instead of looking at what will happen in September or October, “he said.
Record of new infections
The controversy surrounding masks continues in U.S While the country has pulverized its record of new confirmed infections, a total of 77,255 on Thursday. In the absence of an order in this regard issued by the Administration of the President, Donald Trump, and the skepticism shown by the president regarding this preventive measure of possible coronavirus infections, the governors of the United States they manage this matter themselves.
Thus, in states such as Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana or Maine it is already mandatory to wear them in public, while others they are not inclined to regulate their use. The tension is more palpable in cases like Georgia, whose governor, Brian Kemp, sued the mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms, by ordering that the use of a mask is mandatory in the city.
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