US Prez Donald Trump recommends all Americans to voluntarily use non-medical masks to fight COVID-19

United States President Donald Trump has recommended all the Americans to voluntarily use non-medical masks as an additional public health measure to fight the Coronavirus.

Citing the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Mr Trump urged people to wear face coverings like scarves or homemade cloth masks, but to keep medical-grade masks available for the health



workers. 

During a press briefing, he said, the CDC is not recommending the use of medical-grade or surgical-grade masks which need to be used for medical people working to save lives of Americans.

The Novel Coronavirus has so far claimed the lives of over 7,000 people in the US and infected over 2,70,000 others.