protective masks walk at the departure hall of Baghdad
international airport following its reopening on July 23, 2020,
after a closure forced by the coronavirus pandemic restrictions
aimed at preventing the spread of the deadly COVID-19 illness in
Iraq. AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP
The World Health Organization has recommended that
children aged 12 and over now use masks in the same situations as
adults, as the use of face coverings helps stop the spread of the
COVID-19 virus.
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The health agency made the recommendation in a COVID-19 guidance
document it published via its website on Friday.
It said children aged five years and under should not be
required to wear masks, while children aged 6-11 should only wear
masks under certain conditions, including the presence of
widespread transmission in the area where the child resides and the
child’s ability to safely and appropriately use a mask.
However, children aged 12 and over are required to wear a mask
under the same conditions as adults, “in particular when they
cannot guarantee at least a 1-metre distance from others and there
is widespread transmission in the area.”
The WHO has said the world should be able to rein in the
coronavirus pandemic in less than two years, even as the world’s
death toll hit 800,000 and the number of confirmed cases continues
to rise.
“We have a disadvantage of globalisation, closeness,
connectedness, but an advantage of better technology, so we hope to
finish this pandemic before less than two years,” WHO
chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on Friday.
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