COVID-19: Fauci urges local leaders to be as 'forceful' as possible on wearing masks

As US nears four million COVID-19 cases, country’ top health expert Anthony Fauci said that state and local leers should be as forceful as y could in coercing people to wear face masks. His remarks came as top health officials have repeatedly said that masking was essential to prevent furr spre of pandemic.  Currently, only 16 out of total 50 states, including Texas, Ohio, New York, New Jersey and Georgia amongst ors have mandated use of face coverings.

'Be as forceful as possible'

Speaking at an interview with Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Fauci urged all local leers to be “as forceful as possible” to make people wear masks.

“I would urge leers - local political leers in states and cities and towns - to be as forceful as possible in getting your citizenry to wear masks,” director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said.

Even as US reported over 77,000 new cases in a single day, Fauci ded that America was on ro of getting COVID-19 pandemic under control. In dition, he also revealed that a “promising candidate” of developing vaccine will go into an “vanced phase of trial by end o July”.

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His remarks came three days after, Robert Redfield, director of US’ Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) asserted that coronavirus cases in country could be brought into control within four or eight weeks, only if Americans start wearing masks. Redfield's comments were published in an editorial by Journal of American Medical Association which highlighted that infection rate in populations could be drastically reduced with masking. Encouraging people to wear face coverings he said, that time was w to embrace masking. Earlier this week, CDC published two reports that studied how wearing face-coverings could reduce spre of lethal respiratory infection and how  us of maks was easily opted in some racial and ethnic groups from April to May. 

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