The French government has now mandated that citizens wear single-use surgical FFP1 masks, more protective FFP2 filtering facepiece respirators or fabric masks which meet the same"Category 1" specifications — blocking more than 90% of particles — in all public places. In layman's terms, homemade masks will no longer cut it.
The European Center for Disease Control and Prevention warned Thursday that new variants of the coronavirus could cause more hospitalizations and deaths across Europe, urging countries to start taking extra measures — from physical distancing, to quarantining and contact tracing — immediately. The ECDC currently recommends face masks in indoor and outdoor situations when physical distancing cannot be guaranteed, but does not specify what type of face covering should be used.
Faced with more transmissible variants, some scientists say that the focus should be on limiting the amount of viral aerosol exposure as much as possible — and recent studies suggest the best way to do that is through medical-grade masks, in addition to other public health measures. Guidance on cloth masks, issued during the first wave of the pandemic when less was known about how Covid-19 could spread through aerosols and supplies of medical-grade masks were precarious, are now being reassessed.
"We are not questioning the masks used up to now ... but as we don't have any new weapons against the new strains, the only thing we can do is to improve the weapons we already have," Daniel Camus, a member of the council, told France's public broadcaster.
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