Indonesian babies were fitted with visors in June

A newborn baby wears a visor, Indonesia, April 16.

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Swaddled and face covered with a visor.

A video of eight newborns in a hospital has gone viral since the weekend.

It sparked indignant reactions.

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The video was not shot in Thailand, as has sometimes been claimed, but in Indonesia.

Panels attached to the head of the cradles and written in Indonesian provide a first clue in this direction.

These images were released on June 27 on the TikTok account of Sahat Siagian, an Indonesian gynecologist, who practices in a private hospital, located in Semarang.

Neither he nor the hospital were available to respond to the

requests

immediately.

The practice is not isolated: in April, maternity hospitals in Costa Rica, Turkey and Thailand had also equipped newborns with visors facing the coronavirus.

The situation seems to have changed in the Indonesian maternity hospital, however: in the doctor's most recent videos, babies do not wear face protection.

The WHO does not recommend wearing masks for young children.

The international organization also stresses that visors "do not offer equivalent protection [to masks] to prevent transmission of the virus to other people".

A study published in early September concluded that wearing the visor does not prevent the spread of droplets.

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