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Large droplets are the major driver of Covid transmission, masks can stop them: Study – WION
Face masks can reduce the risk of spreading large COVID-19 droplets by up to 99.9 per cent while speaking or coughing, a new study published in the journal Royal…
Face masks can reduce the risk of spreading large COVID-19 droplets by up to 99.9 per cent while speaking or coughing, a new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science claims.
The study was part of a lab experiment done using mechanical mannequins and human subjects.
A woman standing two metres (yards) from a coughing man without a mask will be exposed to 10,000 times more such droplets than if he were wearing one, even if he is only 50 centimetres away, they reported in the journal…
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