The Need of Understanding the Importance And Use Of Face Masks
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Face masks,Covid 19, sterilization, pandemic, health care, purpose ,disinfection, N95
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Face masks are the new normal and has become an essential part in our day to day lives for preventing the entry of virus to and from others during pandemic situation .The more common physical basis of entry of micro organisms are nose, eyes , mouth. Though eyes are protected using goggles, face masks shields against the contaminating substance. The efficiency of masks are dependent on the amount of contaminant removed by it, contributing to various factors such as the number of particles, mass , weight and so on. It is well know that wearing a surgical masks can help block the droplets from entering or spreading from the environment to the wearers respiratory tract and vice versa.There were high levels of concerned raised anxiety on panic buying of face masks by the public during the initial outbreak of the pandemic , a high shortage among the essential group of people in need of face masks by the health care teams as well as the common people to fight strong against the virus..According to aerosol science, whenever liquid hangs in air it is an aerosol, or a “droplet” to mean a coarse particle five micrometers or larger, and reserve “aerosol” for fine particles smaller than five micrometers in effective diameter. Many organizations are suggesting to make use of cloth masks instead of surgical ones in order to prevent the shortage of surgical masks on the Covid 19 health works and thus reducing the economic load on the same. Hence to have in a solution for the same have led to reusing of masks which are meant to be single use by process of efficient sterilization.
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