Offices take extra step to be careful during Covid second wave May 01, 2021 Employees take precautions like double masks, shutting rooms, virtual meetings within office Several transport companies, railway factories, and offices are seeing employees take extra precaution in the backdrop of a more infectious form of Covid gripping parts of India. Transport unions and companies are informing and teaching their members and employers regarding the use of double masks including one surgical mask and a cotton mask; and N95 masks. State driven lockdown Local State-driven and city-driven lockdowns – that vary on the extent of stringency – have already resulted in people upping the quality and quantity of masks. “We have started seeing more employees wear a double mask, and use N95 masks,” said an official, from a railway factory. This was echoed by several officials from different railway offices.