The World Health Organization has indicated that the use of medical respirators should be limited mainly to medical personnel, but has opened the door to the use of locally-made respirators or any other mouth covering as a way to limit the spread of the Corona virus, according to Reuters news agency. .
A senior WHO official said that the main transmission factor of the virus is still people who are believed to be suffering from symptoms of the disease and sneezing and coughing, which leads to contamination of surfaces and transmission of infection to other people, but this does not eliminate the possibility of infection through the air to the virus.
"We must preserve medical masks for first-class workers, but the idea of using any mouth cover to prevent coughing or sneezing. This in itself is not a bad idea," said Mike Ryan, WHO's chief emergency expert.