Children over 12 years old in the context of the UK school systems attend secondary schools and in mid-2020, following WHO guidance42, the government permitted schools to mandate mask wearing in communal areas (where high levels of social mixing and lower levels of social distancing may occur)...
Guidance around the use of face masks varies widely, and several countries in Europe and North America recommend, or mandate, the use of homemade face coverings in public. In order to compare such recommendations to the deployment of resource-limited surgical masks, we ran a further set of si...
In16, a nation-wide face mask mandate was reported to increase the percentage of the face-mask wearing population by \(15\%\), leading to a decrease in the daily growth of confirmed cases by \(0.6\%\). Hence, existing evidences has shown that mask wearing is a straightforward and low...
mask wearing;thermoregulation;mask fit;thermal discomfort;philtrum;mask mandate;facial temperature;microclimate 1. Introduction Wearing masks became an essential part of daily life in many parts of the world during the COVID-19 pandemic that was declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11...