Govt advises double masking, ventilation as among ways to crush pandemic
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Last Updated: May 20, 2021, 01:52 PM IST
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The 12-page advisory explains how Covid-19 is an airborne disease which can be transmitted through aerosols and not just droplets or surface transmission and makes a case for ventilating all indoor areas even when the air conditioning is running.
The government has advised double masking, preferably with N-95, sanitation, ventilation and social distancing as ways to ‘crush’ the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic raging across the country.
The office of the Principal Scientific Adviser, Professor K. VijayRaghavan, issued the detailed guidelines, “Stop the Transmission, Crush the Pandemic - masks, distance, sanitation and ventilation to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2 virus” on Thursday morning as India recorded 2.76 lakh cases and the fatalities fell under 4000.
Hyderabad: Due to the rapid spread of the new Covid variants during the ongoing second wave, health officials are recommending double masking and emphasizing the importance of wearing tightly fitted masks to reduce possible exposure to virus-carrying aerosols. While N95 masks are the gold standard and well-known for properly sealing the face and filtering 95% of particles,
What is double masking, and how is it more effective in the COVID-19 second wave?
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145 million positive cases worldwide, registering about
three million deaths.
safe hygiene practices, such as sanitising and wearing a mask before stepping out, and
social distancing norms religiously.
According to a study by
United States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC), wearing a mask that can tightly fit your face is effective against the prevention of the coronavirus.
In fact, while an unknotted surgical mask was proven to block