Mask wearing28 Dec 2020 11:19
Just like to add a extract by Eminent Doctors mask are her for a long time !!!!
How long will we have to wear masks?
Sir Patrick Vallance said this week that even with the vaccine rollout face masks may still be required by next winter, this is due to the issue of transmission.
Scientists say even when masks are no longer required by law, the pandemic may have left a lasting cultural effect on society, and people will continue to wear them regardless.
Stephen Baker, professor of molecular microbiology at the University of Cambridge, said wearing masks in public places has been normal in Asian countries for years.
“If I told you this time last year, we'd all be wearing face masks in public places you’d have thought I was mental,” he said, “And now everybody seems to have adopted that, I think it may continue.”
He added that recent changes to our behaviours are likely to have a “longer term benefit” to infectious disease control in the future.
Face masks will likely be around for a long time, experts say, as they become part of our behaviour towards tackling infectious diseases
Face masks will likely be around for a long time, experts say, as they become part of our behaviour towards tackling infectious diseases CREDIT: TOLGA AKMEN/AFP
“This is going to be an overall positive experience on the way we then control future infections, and the way we limit the spread of them, by people changing their behaviour, by being aware of them touching common surfaces, by wearing face masks in public, and by having an understanding that they need to go and get immunised,” he said.
“I think that’s going to have a big impact.”
Professor Jonathan Van Tam, the deputy chief medical officer, also hinted face coverings are not going anywhere anytime soon.
"Do I think there will come a big moment where we have a massive party and throw off masks and hand sanitiser and say that's it, it's behind us, like the end of the war? No I don't," he said during a briefing last week.
But Boris Johnson responded to the suggestion adding: "We want to get back to normal".
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