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Everyone should wear face masks inside their own home if family members have Covid symptoms or test positive, European health chiefs have said. People in the same household as someone who has tested positive or has a fever, cough or loss of taste and smell have been advised to wear masks inside their homes by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Both the person who is sick and everyone else who lives with them should wear a mask or face covering as much as possible, the ECDC said. The EU agency released a technical report looking into how useful face masks are in preventin...

A man, 51, had to go to hospital in Hong Kong after he scratched his eye while taking off his face mask during his lunch break at work. He scraped his eye after flipping the mask while pulling it off.

Mask-wearing was made compulsory in public places after President Cyril Ramaphosa announced enhanced level 3 lockdown regulations. “It has been encouraging to know that, despite the mutations, we are still able to protect ourselves with the armour we have established,” Mkhize said. According to The Lancet, the study cannot prove mask-wearing is directly responsible for slowing virus transmission, and it is possible people who report wearing masks may also engage in other behaviours that reduce their risk of Covid-19 infection, such as increased hand washing, and this was not addressed in...

The UK's chief scientific adviser warned today that face coverings could become the new normal in crowded outdoor places and may have to be used until next winter or longer.

Research from US-based scientists found that in the summer of 2020 when a mandate to wear masks in public areas was enforced, there was a ten per cent rise in the amount of people using coverings.