This was article was medically reviewed by Dr. Syra Madad Although the threat of the novel coronavirus is still very much present, the supply and demand for cloth face masks have mostly leveled ...

The Nikkei article reported the cloth masks that were to be distributed ... August 2020 and March 2021. Isozaki said a total of 83 million masks have been kept in storage. The government had ...

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 ...