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Fauci told CNN's Erin Burnett that it would be a "great idea" to have everybody wearing masks uniformly. He also responded to criticism that mandates on masks would be difficult to enforce.

"If everyone agrees that this is something that's important and they mandate and everybody pulls together, and says 'we're gonna mandate it, but let's just do it,' I think that would be a great idea to have everybody do it uniformly," Fauci said.

Fauci further said that one of the arguments he hears against masks mandates is that enforcing it would create more of an issue.

"One of the issues though, I get the argument that 'Well, if you mandate a mask, you're going to have to enforce it and that's going to create more of a problem,'" Fauci said. "Well, if people are not wearing masks, then maybe we should be mandating it."

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Iran's Foreign Ministry has portrayed a US-brokered Sudan-Israel deal to normalise ties as "phoney", accusing Khartoum of paying "a ransom" in exchange for Washington taking the North African country off a list of state sponsors of terrorism, where it was added in 1993, soon after the rise to power of now ousted President Omar al-Bashir.

"Pay enough ransom, close your eyes to the crimes against Palestinians, then you'll be taken off the so-called 'terrorism' blacklist", the ministry tweeted in English, going on to fume:

"Obviously, the list is as phoney as the US fight against terrorism. Shameful".

The deal was negotiated on the US side by senior Trump adviser Jared Kushner, Middle East envoy Avi Berkowitz, National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and national security official Miguel Correa, with Kushner, for his part, calling the agreement "a great breakthrough".

Meanwhile, both Israel and America, which has been acting as a mediator, have stated the deal is just a continuation of an apparent trend for peace agreements with the Jewish state, with Netanyahu for his part praising the "expansion of the peace circle". Donald Trump has expressed certainty that Iran will also join a "deal like this" in the foreseeable future.