In a first, Trump dons mask as Covid-19 death toll in US surpasses 134,000

The first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, US President Donald Trump, who for months had declined to wear a face mask in public, was spotted donning one on Saturday.

Trump wore a dark coloured face mask during his visit to Walter Reed to see wounded military members, The Hill reported. This comes at a time when the US is ravaged with the coronavirus pandemic, having lost over 134,000 lives to it.

"I think when you are in a hospital, especially in that particular setting when you are talking to a lot of soldiers, people that in some cases just got