the WHO-the head opens up for a wider use of home-made masks in the world’s population can have an effect.
the world health organisation, WHO, opens up for 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.
But now it sounds, to a more widespread use of home-made masks or other ways to cover the mouth of, could also be a way to reduce the spread of infection.
It says Michael Ryan, who is the leader of the WHO’s nødprogram, to journalists Friday evening Danish time.
More than a million people have so far been confirmed infected with the coronavirus worldwide.
According to the WHO transmitted the virus mainly by direct dråbespredning from the cough or sneeze. But Michael Ryan adds that there is also less of a risk of airborne infection.
– We must save the medical masks to our health workers on the front line, he says.
But the idea to use the covering of the airways, or mouth to prevent (drops from red.) cough and sneeze, it is in itself not a bad idea.
He stresses, however, that covering of the mouth doesn’t negate the need to continue to wash hands and keep distance to the others.
Thursday was the from the WHO, a group of experts to take a position on whether more people should wear face masks on the basis of new research in the field.
A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which show that drops from the host can reach a range of six feet, while droplets from a sneeze can reach a range of up to eight metres.
In the city of New York mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday called on all new yorkers to cover their faces when they venture outside the home.
Also in Austria, the government has this week introduced an injunction that all austrians must have a mask on when they shop in supermarkets.
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