The World Health Organization (WHO) is tightening its mask guidelines, telling people living in areas where coronaviruses are still spreading in different places to wear masks at different times.
The new guidelines, which came out on Tuesday, make it clear that access to stores, workplaces and low-ventilated schools should ensure that they wear masks. The WHO also asks that people wear masks if they cannot keep a physical distance of at least three feet from others within a closed area.
This guide tells children 12 and older to wear a mask and cover their face outside if social distance is not possible.
“Unless the ventilation is adequately assessed indoors, the WHO advises that the general public should wear a non-medical mask, regardless of whether a physical distance of at least 1 meter can be maintained,” the WHO said.
The health organization added that people should wear masks at home when they cannot maintain a distance between them when they invite visitors.
The WHO also recommends that health workers wear N95 masks when caring for COVID-19 patients. Masks have been proven to protect them when performing procedures that can be exposed to infectious drops.
Last month, the U.S. Department of Disease Control and Prevention The centers urged people to wear masks, saying they help protect those who wear them and others from contracting the coronavirus.
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