Coronavirus: WHO changes advice for masks

O The BSH had earlier said that there was not enough evidence to recommend that healthy people should wear them, although it has always advised that facial medical masks be worn by sick people and those who care about them is albinfo.ch.

On June 5, 2020, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebraesus, head of O The BSH said WHO recommends that governments should encourage the general public to wear masks where there is a broad transmission and physical distance is difficult, like. Public transportation, shops, or other closed or crowded environments.

WHO has been concerned that masks would encourage a false sense of security and deprive medical professionals of sufficient masks. As these dangers continue, new evidence has emerged on transmission risks, in particular evidence suggesting that people can be very infectious in the days before showing symptoms. This danger extends even in anemtomatic cases, passing albinfo.ch away.

The new advice recommends that the general public wear non-medical cloth masks made from at least three layers of different material when they cannot keep enough distance, for example on buses, planes and trains.

Those in close contact with people 60 years of age or older or with persons with cardiovascular diseases, mellitus diabetes, chronic lung disease, cancer, cerbrovascular disease, or immunosupression should wear medical masks, as should be anyone in contact with someone with suggestive symptoms of COVID-19, the recommendation, writes Swissfo.ch.

In line with WHO's advice, the Swiss government recommends wearing masks when a distance of 2 metres cannot be maintained, in public transport as an example.