Mass masking as a way to contain COVID-19 and exit lockdown in low- and middle-income countries.
COVID-19
Face masks
Lockdown
Low- and middle-income countries
Prevention
World Health Organization
Journal
The Journal of infection
ISSN: 1532-2742
Titre abrégé: J Infect
Pays: England
ID NLM: 7908424
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 2020
09 2020
Historique:
received:
30
06
2020
revised:
07
07
2020
accepted:
14
07
2020
pubmed:
20
7
2020
medline:
21
8
2020
entrez:
20
7
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
In new guidelines published on June 5th 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that in areas with ongoing COVID-19 community transmission, governments should encourage the general public to wear face masks in specific situations and settings as part of a comprehensive approach to suppress COVID-19 transmission. Recent online surveys in 206,729 persons residing in nine low- and middle-income countries showed that 32.7%-99.7% of respondents used face masks with significant differences across age groups and sexes. Targeted health promotion strategies and government support are required to increase mask use by the general population.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32682733
pii: S0163-4453(20)30489-8
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.07.015
pmc: PMC7366097
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Letter
Comment
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e1-e5Commentaires et corrections
Type : CommentOn
Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 The British Infection Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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