Mass masking as a way to contain COVID-19 and exit lockdown in low- and middle-income countries

Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo; Supa Pengpid; Edlaine Faria de Moura Villela; Vo Van Thang; Mohammed Ahmed; John Ditekemena; Bernardo Vega Crespo; Rhoda K. Wanyenze; Janeth Dula; Takashi Watanabe; Christopher Delgado-Ratto; Koen Vanden Driessche; Rafael Van den Bergh; Robert Colebunders

doi:10.1016/j.jinf.2020.07.015

Mass masking as a way to contain COVID-19 and exit lockdown in low- and middle-income countries

Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo (Primer Autor), Supa Pengpid, Edlaine Faria de Moura Villela, Vo Van Thang, Mohammed Ahmed, John Ditekemena, Bernardo Vega Crespo, Rhoda K. Wanyenze, Janeth Dula, Takashi Watanabe, Christopher Delgado-Ratto, Koen Vanden Driessche, Rafael Van den Bergh, Robert Colebunders

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In new guidelines published on June 5th 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that in areas with ongoing COVID-19 community transmission, governments should encourage the general public to wear face masks in specific situations and settings as part of a comprehensive approach to suppress COVID-19 transmission. Recent online surveys in 206,729 persons residing in nine low- and middle-income countries showed that 32.7%-99.7% of respondents used face masks with significant differences across age groups and sexes. Targeted health promotion strategies and government support are required to increase mask use by the general population.

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Páginas (desde-hasta)	e1-e5
Publicación	Journal of Infection
Volumen	81
N.º	3
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2020.07.015
Estado	Publicada - sep. 2020

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Siewe Fodjo, J. N., Pengpid, S., Villela, E. F. D. M., Van Thang, V., Ahmed, M., Ditekemena, J., Crespo, B. V., Wanyenze, R. K., Dula, J., Watanabe, T., Delgado-Ratto, C., Driessche, K. V., Van den Bergh, R., & Colebunders, R. (2020). Mass masking as a way to contain COVID-19 and exit lockdown in low- and middle-income countries. Journal of Infection, 81(3), e1-e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2020.07.015

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