People are standing in line in front of a supermarket in the South Korean capital, Seoul, to buy a medical mask. Each person is allowed to buy a maximum of five. March 3, 2020. photo: Wang Jingqiang / Zuma Press / Forum
The portrait of a man in early 2020 is a masked portrait. It provides little protection against the virus and is more useful for those who are already sick, but people around the world still buy it.
Immediately after the coronavirus outbreak, medical masks became a scarce commodity in many countries around the world – despite the recommendations of the World Health Organization to wear them only when in contact with sick people. Masks are worn even in the street, although the probability of catching an infection in the fresh air is minimal. In addition, the mask makes breathing difficult. If there are problems with the heart or lungs, they will only get worse.
Buddhist monks wearing medical masks while praying for victims of coronavirus in one of the shrines of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. February 22, 2020.
Photo: Lim Huey Teng / Reuters / Forum
Liverpool fans at the stadium during a football match.
Photo: Mike Egerton / PA Images / Forum
A policeman removes the mask from the monument to the Hachikō dog. Next door is a volunteer who gives out masks to doctors. Tokyo, Japan. March 8, 2020.
Photo: Stoyan Nenov / Reuters / Forum
March 4, 2020. Students at school in Jakarta began wearing masks after the first confirmed cases of coronavirus in Indonesia. photo: Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana / Reuters / Forum
Masked stewardesses fill out a questionnaire before checking temperatures at Sokarna Hata International Airport in Tangerang, near Jakarta. March 6, 2020.
Photo: Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana / Reuters / Forum
February 23, 2020. Police blocked the road to the Italian city of Casapusterlenga to prevent the coronavirus from spreading.
Photo: IPA / BACKGRID / Backgrid UK / Forum
Belarus is no exception: it’s almost impossible to buy a mask in Belarusian drugstores.
Last week, police detained a citizen of Minsk, who was reselling masks through social networks at a price several times higher than that of the pharmacy.
WHO rules on the use of masks:
If you are healthy, wear the mask only if you care for a person with suspected coronavirus infection.
Wear a mask if you start coughing.
The masks are only effective when combined with frequent hand washing with soap and water or an alcohol-based product.
Wear and remove the mask only with clean hands.
There should be no gap between the face and the mask.
You have to avoid touching the mask. If you do touch it, you should wash your hands right away.
Mask needs to get replaced as soon as it gets wet. You have to take it off from the back. The mask has to be thrown in a closed container. After that, you need to wash your hands.
Disposable masks must not be reused.
A woman wearing a doctor’s mask crosses a road to Tokyo. March 8, 2020.
Photo: Edgard Garrido / Reuters / Forum
A clothing vendor puts masks on dummies in the Palestinian Gaza Strip. March 7, 2020.
Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour / Zuma Press / Forum
A woman in the mirror of Tokyu Plaza Omotesando Harajuku shopping center in the Japanese capital. March 8, 2020.
Photo: Edgard Garrido / Reuters / Forum
A man selling masks in the Pakistani city of Karachi. March 2, 2020.
Photo: PPI / Zuma Press / Forum
The inhabitants of Beijing in masks. March 5, 2020.
Photo: Artyom Ivanov / TASS / Forum
People in line for masks in Seoul.
Photo: Kim Kyung Hoon / Reuters / Forum
A masked participant in London Fashion Week. February 14, 2020.
Photo: MATRIXPICTURES.CO.UK / Matrix / Forum
Visitor to London Fashion Week. February 14, 2020.
Photo:MATRIXPICTURES.CO.UK / Matrix / Forum
Visitor to London Fashion Week. February 14, 2020.
Photo: MATRIXPICTURES.CO.UK / Matrix / Forum
A masked photographer shoots a girl in Milan. February 24, 2020.
Photo: IPA / BACKGRID / Backgrid UK / Forum
At the end of February it became known about the first case of coronavirus transfer from a human to a dog. Now doctors are asking people not to kiss their pets. In an archival photo of 2009, a man in the Chinese city of Wuhan (by the way, the epicenter of the current outbreak of the new virus) puts a mask on his dog. December 4, 2009.
Photo: Sheperd Zhou / Utuku / Ropi / Zuma Press / Forum
The Sanitary and Epidemiological Service of Minsk also recommends wearing disposable medical masks only for those who come into contact with people with symptoms of respiratory infection. Health Minister of Belarus Uladzimir Karanik adds that masks should also be worn by those who feel ill — not to spread the infection further.
“Prevention measures are common: wash hands and do not touch the eyes with dirty hands,” Karanik said in an interview with the ONT.
March 7, 2020. Funeral agency workers wearing medical masks during a ceremony in Nembra City.
Photo: Cozzoli / Fotogramma / Ropi / Zuma Press / Forum
As of March 9, the total number of those infected with coronavirus is more than 100 thousand people in 109 countries.
There are no special drugs against it, the vaccines are being clinically tested.
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