Recommended for home wear in some cases

"World Health" tightens guidelines for "masks" in areas of "Corona" outbreak

A teacher wears a mask for a student at a school in Indonesia.

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The World Health Organization said that residents in areas where the new Corona virus (Covid-19) is spreading should wear masks in shops, workplaces and schools that lack proper ventilation, and the organization recommended, in tightening its guidelines yesterday, to wear masks at home to prevent the transmission of infection Contract the virus when receiving visitors if the physical distancing cannot be maintained.

She added that those in closed places who cannot maintain a distance of at least one meter, including children and pupils over the age of 12, must wear masks even if these places are well ventilated.

They should also wear masks in the open air if they are unable to maintain social distancing.

A spokeswoman for the organization, Margaret Harris, said that these recommendations are among the largest amendments to the guidelines for wearing masks, and they come as an update to recommendations issued last June.

The United Nations organization expanded its recommendations for wearing masks in health care facilities, to include the recommendation that administrative staff and workers who are not directly involved in health care wear masks at all times.

The organization stressed the need for patients to wear masks in situations where they are in close contact with others.

The organization renewed its warning that wearing masks may give a false sense of safety, making individuals overlook other major preventive measures.

The Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization for antibiotic resistance, Hanan Balkhi, advised to reduce mixing as much as possible, and called for the mind to prevail over emotion in these days.

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