Biden begs the Americans to wear a mask

A mask isn’t a political statement, but it’s a good way to start uniting the country, the president-elect said on Monday 9-N.

The US president-elect, Joe Biden, assured that the country faces a “very dark winter” in the face of the “growing” threat of the new coronavirus, which is causing more than a thousand deaths a day, for which he “begged” of citizens who “wear a mask”.

“We are facing a very dark winter,” Biden said in a speech in Wilmington (Delaware) after meeting with his newly created working group on covid, a “crisis takes a thousand (thousands) lives a day.”

“Please. Wear a mask,” he remarked, “Do it for yourself. For your neighbor. A mask is not a political statement, but it is a good way to start uniting the country.”

This is Biden’s first public speech since his victory speech Saturday, in which he introduced himself as the president who wants to heal America’s wounds to end polarization, despite President Donald Trump still not acknowledging his defeat. .

The office of the president-elect, who will not take office until January 20, 2021, has revealed the main lines of its plan, which includes ensuring free access to tests for the disease; solve problems with personal protective equipment (PPE).

In addition to providing “clear, consistent and evidence-based” recommendations on how each community should address the pandemic and that resources reach schools, small businesses and families, and insists that social distance is essential to ending the proliferation of covid -19.

Another axis will be the “effective” distribution of treatments and future vaccines, with an investment of 25,000 million dollars for the production and distribution of the latter.

Finally, Biden will seek “immediate” restoration of the relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO), from which Trump withdrew the country, as although he recognizes that it is “not perfect” it is essential to coordinate a global response when in the world today. 50 million cases have been exceeded.

The United States, the country most affected by the pandemic in the world, reached 9,960,918 confirmed cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and 237,564 deaths this Sunday, according to an independent tally from Johns Hopkins University.