Coronavirus: WHO advocates wearing masks at home - under these conditions

Should you also wear the mask in your own apartment to protect against the coronavirus?

The WHO recommends this for certain situations.

• The World Health Organization has issued new recommendations regarding masks.

• A mask should also be worn at home when someone comes to visit.

• Nevertheless, the WHO maintains that the benefit of the masks with regard to Corona * has not been clearly proven.

Munich -

have become our everyday companions in the Corona * year 2020.

Since April there has been a

in Germany

.

Rising numbers of new infections * and Covid-19 deaths are creating further restrictions that should help

contain

the

.

In Germany, all current Corona measures have been extended until January 10th.

Meanwhile, the

its recommendations for

.

Coronavirus: WHO with new recommendation regarding masks

The WHO now recommends that people should also

wear masks

, if the

there is not good or cannot be properly assessed.

This also applies "regardless of whether a distance of at least one meter can be maintained", it said in the updated

Masks should not be worn on the arm or wrist, or pulled down to the chin or neck, among other things.

Instead, they should be kept in clean, reusable plastic bags when not in use.

In

and

, all people working there should now wear masks.

This applies not only to the

, but also to cleaning and kitchen

as well as office workers.

According to the WHO, the use of masks has not been clearly proven: "Only limited and contradicting evidence"

"There is currently limited and conflicting scientific evidence about the effectiveness of masking in healthy people in preventing respiratory infections, including Sars-CoV-2 *," according to the

Despite the new recommendations, the organization maintains that the benefit of wearing a general mask in healthy people has not yet been clearly proven.

For example, a

published in November

with 4862 participants found no difference in

with the coronavirus.

However, other studies have shown that wearing a mask in contact with infected people

significantly reduced

the

.

In 

 , the effectiveness of the 

 illustrated

 the example of 

.

The Thuringian city was the first in the Federal Republic to rely on a uniform concept.

Compared to other places without a 

 , Jena recorded a quarter fewer corona cases at that time, a later study even came to a result of 40 percent. 

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