"What I can tell you is that, at this point, we don't see an
increase in new cases now, nearly two weeks on from when the first
protests took effect," Pence said in an interview on Fox Business
Network.
"Many people at protests were wearing masks and engaging in some
social distancing," he said.
Protesters thronged the streets of U.S. cities and spread around the
world following the May 25 death of a 46-year-old black man, George
Floyd, after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for
nearly nine minutes.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert on the White
House coronavirus task force that Pence chairs, has expressed
concern about the protests taking place during the coronavirus
pandemic.
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"When you get congregations like we saw with the demonstrations, that's taking a
risk," Fauci said Wednesday in an interview on ABC.
Fauci said on Friday the mass protests were a "perfect setup" for spreading the
virus.
(Reporting by Eric Beech; Editing by Tom Brown)
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