Although an increasing number of countries recommend its citizens to go with mundbind to limit the spread of the coronavirus, so is the Danish health authorities insist that it is not a help against corona.
It writes Jyllands-Posten.
Against the newspaper says the Danish authorities, that there is no scientific evidence of the masks helps in relation to infection. It is, therefore, that the Danish medicines agency will not recommend mundbind ordinary, ikkesmittede citizens.
the Outlook is based on advice from the Statens Serum Institut. Here, ” says Brian Kristensen, that there is no evidence that it has the desired effect.
“Coughs and sneezes man, you must be at home and get the neighbor to fix the purchase.”
“You need to have good reasons to leave his home in such a case, and you should, as a minimum, bring a engangslommetørklæde, as you can cough and sneeze in,” says Brian Kristensen, head of the Central Unit for infection control at the Statens Serum Institute:
“And you must remember to wash hands afterwards. You can, because you need to be to the doctor, we recommend that the person gets a mundbind/mask on,” he says to the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
In Europe so far, come rules about the mask in Austria, the Czech republic and Slovakia.
IN the UNITED states recommends that the federal government americans to cover their faces to protect themselves from the corona virus. Here is a recommendation and not an injunction.
the world health Organization (WHO) has so far not wanted to recommend mundbind.
on Friday opened the WHO however, to a wider use of face masks can help to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.
WHO continue to think that face masks should primarily be used by health care professionals, as it is here, the mesh has the greatest effect.
Brian says, to the serum institute is aware of the guidelines in other countries.
“It is certainly something that we look at and follow in. But each country assesses what is needed, and adapts the recommendations to the situation they are in,” he says to the newspaper.
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