600M face masks needed in immediate post-lockdown period
WE will need at the very least 600 million face masks just for the three-month period when the lockdown for the metropolitan Manila and the Calabarzon areas, the most infected regions in the country, is lifted, health department officials estimate.
One has asked his countrymen to use face masks, the other hasn’t. Whose country has by far the worst case of the pandemic? The more widespread use of face masks in Asia, where it has been for years culturally accepted, has been attributed as one of the factors why countries in the region have been largely able to contain the explosion of Covid-19.
“‘In Japan, [face masks] became a very common [preventive] practice against the flu, and in the seventies and eighties people started using them for hay fever,’ said Mitsutoshi Horii, a professor at Shumei University who has researched mask-wearing in Japan. ‘More recently, there was kind of a public scare about polluted air from China and people started wearing masks for that.’
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