By NAOYA KON/ Staff Writer
July 7, 2020 at 19:17 JST
Kazunari Onishi, an associate professor at St. Luke’s International University in Tokyo, tests a gauze mask distributed by the central government to ascertain the leakage rate. (Provided by Kazunari Onishi)
Cloth face masks, often cobbled together as a makeshift alternative when stocks of surgical masks run low, and sometimes worn as a fashion statement, offer no practical protection against the novel coronavirus, a study shows. [Read More]
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