Nearly 60 percent of people in Japan were unaware of government guidance that wearing masks outdoors for protection against the coronavirus is unnecessary in most cases, recent survey results have shown.
Wearing masks when outdoors is not always necessary even if sufficient social distancing cannot be maintained, with the caveat that people are not conversing, according to a Japanese government panel of experts on COVID-19 measures
Debate is emerging in Japan over how much longer people should wear masks to combat the coronavirus. With the sixth domestic wave of infections on the wane, many are expressing signs of i