Guidance from the World Health Organisation says healthy people don’t need to wear face masks and that doing so won’t provide added protection from the coronavirus.
There’s some evidence that caretakers of infected people can protect their health by wearing masks, the WHO guidance said, but “there is currently no evidence that wearing a mask (whether medical or other types) by healthy persons in the wider community setting, including universal community masking, can prevent them from infection with respiratory viruses, including COVID-19.”
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