The Shocking New Way Coronavirus Can Break Through Your Face Mask

You should be wearing a protective face covering whenever you are around other people in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19. However, according to new research, you may still be compromising not only your health, but the health of others, if you aren’t standing six feet apart.

A new study courtesy of Talib Dbouk and Dimitris Drikakis, from the University of Nicosia in Cyprus and published in Physics of Fluids, claims that the virus can still spread when a mask-wearing person is coughing excessively, traveling up to 18 feet in five seconds via droplets of saliva.

Read the full article here: The Shocking New Way Coronavirus Can Break Through Your Face Mask

2020-06-30T14:48:04+03:00June 16th, 2020|COVID-19 UNIC in the Press, COVID-19 Use of Masks, In English, UNIC IN THE NEWS|

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