“From my perspective, most are supportive of maintaining this measure,” Associate Professor Ashley St John, from Singapore’s Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases, told ABC news.
The public understands that marks are effective in preventing widespread disease due to efforts to communicate the evidence behind the mask policy, she said. She added that “probably the most important aspect of the response to COVID-19 now, that is lowering COVID-associated deaths, is vaccination.
If there is a time to sort of dust off mask-wearing, it’s exactly in this situation as part of pulling out all stops to do the right thing for ourselves and our community to try [to] bring transmission down,” he added. /TISG
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