Iss gives the go-ahead for 'do it yourself' masks

Green disc from the Higher Institute of Health (ISS) to the 'do it yourself' masks that can be used by citizens and made on their own, while there is still some confusion about prices. The draft of the Raising Decree sets a maximum recommended price for masks and disinfectants which - as written in the working document - cannot however exceed € 1.50 for sale for surgical masks up to € 9.50 for FFP3 with valve. Then the clarification of the Ministry of Economic Development. "There is no intention to go back on the price of the masks. The part of the text relating to the roof for personal protective equipment from Covid - they emphasize - dates back to before the order of Commissioner Arcuri." On the price of the masks and which typology citizens can or must use - the virologist of the University of Milan Fabrizio Pregliasco tells ANSA - there is still a great deal of confusion. The invitation to the institutions is to clarify. "Of course there is that, with phase 2, the use of masks has become mandatory for citizens when traveling on public transport or in any case indoors.
    In the meantime, however, citizens will also be able to use handcrafted masks made from T-shirts or scarves, as also indicated by the Center for Disease Control (Cdc) in Atlanta: the important thing is that they are multifilter and multilayer. The more sophisticated Ffp2 and Ffp3 masks, or even the surgical ones, are instead intended for different uses and must be used mainly by healthcare personnel. The masks with more complex filtering levels, explained the president of the Higher Institute of Health Silvio Brusaferro during the weekly press conference to take stock of the epidemiological trend of the epidemic, "are qualified as Personal Protective Equipment and are constructed in such a way such, with or without valve, that it can also prevent the transmission of the virus by air, ie they have a higher complexity and are therefore recommended in the healthcare field, where there is a risk of being exposed to aerosols or patients at high risk. In other contexts, these masks are only recommended where there are very specific risks. "