CLOTHES factories are to start churning out millions of cloth face coverings for Brits to wear to work. Ministers are in secret talks with manufacturers to provide the masks for everyday use as par…
Talks are also underway with underemployed British clothes makers to switch their idle supply lines to making the masks.
Instead of preventing people from catching the disease, they are deemed to be useful in stopping people already infected with it from expelling droplets from their mouth and nose.told the Commons Health Committee: “Masks may have a marginal positive effect in that situation, or face coverings of some sort might do”.
He explained: “The evidence is that essentially a minute at two metres’ contact is about the same risk as six seconds at one metre, so that gives you some idea of why the two metres becomes important. “And the risk at one metre is about 10 to 30 times higher than the risk at two metres, so the distancing is an important part of this. Where, therefore, masks may have a role is in situations where distancing is not possible.
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