WHO Executive Director Mike Ryan stressed that there is no specific evidence to prove that wearing masks in gathering places carries a potential benefit.
He said: "In fact, some evidence proved the opposite if the gags were not used or worn properly."
Ryan was answering a question related to wearing masks during the briefing today at the headquarters of the World Health Organization, where he explained that the world suffers from a "severe shortage" of masks and other medical equipment, stressing that "the people most at risk from the virus are workers in the health sector in The front lines, they are vulnerable to the virus every second every day, and the idea that they do not have terrifying masks. "
Maria Van Kerkhoff, the WHO's epidemiologist and infectious disease, said the organization does not recommend wearing masks except in the case of an infected person who does so as a "precautionary measure to prevent the spread of the disease."
Kerkhov explained that the World Health Organization recommends wearing masks for "infected people" at home, or "only those who take care of infected people in their homes".