President Trump finally wears face mask in public

President Donald Trump finally wore a face mask in public for the first time on Saturday.

White House experts leading the national fight against the contagion have recommended wearing face coverings in public to prevent transmission of the illness. 

But Trump had repeatedly avoided wearing a mask, even after staffers at the White House tested positive for the virus and as more aides have taken to wearing them.

Trump visited Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in suburban Washington to meet wounded service members and health care providers caring forCovid-19 patients. As he left the White House, he told reporters: “When you’re in a hospital, especially … I think it’s a great thing to wear a mask.”

The president was a latecomer to wearing a mask during the pandemic, which has raged across the US since March and infected more than 3.2 million and killed at least 134,000.