Trump said he would not issue an order requiring Americans to wear masks and did not believe that covering their faces would help curb the spread of nCoV.

"I want people to have a certain freedom and I don't believe in such an instruction," President Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox News on July 17, when asked if he would consider issuing it.

He continued to be skeptical of the use of the mask, emphasizing that health officials initially believed that healthy people did not need to cover their faces.

"I don't believe in the statement that if people wear masks, everything will disappear," he said when referring to the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) saying that if people

To support his argument, Trump cited Dr. Anthony Fauci who advised Americans not to wear masks at the beginning of the epidemic.

"As you know, masks also cause some problems," Trump continued, but did not elaborate.

The CDC in April recommended that people cover their faces to prevent nCoV from spreading after there is evidence that asymptomatic patients can still spread the virus.

Last week, the US President was first seen wearing a mask in public during a visit to Walter Reed Army Hospital.

In recent weeks, many Republican and conservative members of the United States have lobbied people to wear masks as an effective way to prevent the virus from spreading, enabling businesses to reopen to recover.

Some governors, local leaders and businesses also issued orders to force people to wear masks when the number of nCoV infections sharply increased in many states.

In Florida, where the Republican National Convention will take place next month and the new US epidemic, Gov. Ron DeSantis also refused to give instructions to wear a mask.

The US, the largest epidemic region in the world, currently records more than 3.76 million cases of nCoV, more than 140,000 deaths.