Both masks and physical distancing is important, professor Krishna Kota said (Representational)
Washington:
Simply wearing a face mask may not protect you from catching the novel coronavirus, that causes COVID-19, if you are not maintaining physical distancing, according to a study.
The research, published in the journal Physics of Fluids, tested how five different types of mask materials affected the spread of droplets that carry the SARS-CoV-2 virus, when we cough or sneeze.
All the material the researchers tested dramatically reduced the number of droplets that were transmitted.
However, enough droplets to potentially cause the viral illness still made it through several of the materials when physical distance was less than six feet, they said.