North Dakota has become the 35th U.S. state to require face coverings be worn in public, as governors across the country grapple with a surge in coronavirus infections that threatens to swamp their healthcare systems. “Our situation has changed, and we must change with it," North Dakota's Republican Governor Doug Burgum said in a statement late on Friday. Republican President Donald Trump has rarely been seen wearing a mask, except when he was stricken with the virus last month. Since the pandemic began, the virus has infected 10,759,565 people in the United States, killing 244,324 of them, according to a Reuters tally. The biggest monthly spike of the pandemic will come in January, when more than 65,000 people are projected to die, the institute said.

Source: Mint November 14, 2020 22:07 UTC