coronavirus. New research shows wearing a face covering lowers the risk of transmitting Covid-19 to others through speaking and coughing.
On Wednesday's episode of Good Morning Britain, the general practitioner urged viewers to wear a face-covering while out in public places.
He explained that it's safer to be closer to someone wearing a mask rather than further away without one.He said: "Just being outside is not an absolute protector and interestingly some research coming out has shown that if someone is coughing wearing a mask there is ten thousand times less droplet transmission to two metre away."It's actually safer to be 0.5m away of someone wearing a mask than 2m away if they're not wearing a mask."So it kind of adds to the research.
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