Masks significantly reduce infection risk, likely preventing thousands of COVID-19 cases: Study

Masks significantly reduce infection risk, likely preventing thousands of COVID-19 cases: Study

Channel NewsAsia - World·2020-06-13 05:29

REUTERS: Requiring the wearing of masks to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus in areas at the epicentre of the global pandemic may have prevented tens of thousands of infections, a new study suggests.

Mask-wearing is even more important for preventing the virus' spread and the sometimes deadly COVID-19 illness it causes than social distancing and stay-at-home orders, researchers said, in the study published in PNAS: The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.

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