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Now WHO recommends wearing masks in your own home
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WHO advises visitors in poorly ventilated rooms to wear a mask
Quelle: pa / Joachim Bywal / Joachim Bywaletz
Protective masks have been a part of everyday life for a long time. Now the World Health Organization recommends using them at home under certain circumstances. And he comments on a question that is often discussed: should he wear the mask on his wrist.
reThe World Health Organization (WHO) has expanded its recommendations on the use of masks as protection against coronavirus infections. He now recommends that people also wear masks in their own homes when visiting by outsiders, if ventilation is not good or cannot be properly assessed. This applies “regardless of whether a distance of at least one meter can be maintained,” the recommendations updated Wednesday say.
Masks should not be worn on the arm or wrist, or down to the chin or neck when not over the mouth and nose, according to the WHO. They should be kept in clean, reusable plastic bags. In hospitals and care facilities, everyone working there must now wear masks, including cleaning and kitchen staff and office workers, not just care staff.
Despite the new recommendations, the WHO maintains that the benefit of using a general mask in healthy people has not yet been clearly demonstrated: “At present, there is limited and conflicting scientific evidence on the effectiveness of using a mask in healthy people for prevent respiratory virus infections, including SARS. -CoV-2, to prevent “.
A study published in November with 4,862 participants, in which some wore masks and others didn’t, found no difference in Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus infections. Smaller studies have found that wearing a mask in contact with infected people significantly reduces the risk of infection. Other studies have compared regions with and without a mask and found a decrease in Covid-19 diseases where masks were used.
