With new and more transmissible Covid-19 variants doing the rounds, Germany has made it mandatory to wear medical-grade masks in public settings, which tells us a lot about how effective cloth masks ...

The much-ridiculed “Abenomask” was apparently so unpopular that millions of the cloth masks have gone unused and are languishing in storage. At his Oct. 27 morning news conference, Yoshihiko Isozaki, ...

an effective measure against the new coronavirus, and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare also recommends wearing a mask in medical institutions and crowded places. Meanwhile, a research team at ...

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The government plans to deliver an additional 80 million cloth face masks to care facilities around Japan, a policy met with the same derision seen over the first batch of “Abenomasks.” The extra ...

A nonwoven cloth mask, which research shows is better at stopping fluid droplets than other types of mask. (Mainichi/Natsuko Ishida) TOKYO -- More shops and schools across Japan are asking people not ...

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CNN’s medical analyst Dr Leana Wen has said that cloth masks are useless in the fight against the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, instead encouraging viewers to wear three-layer medical ...

To help combat Omicron, the Biden administration is opening up more Covid testing sites and delivering 500 million Covid tests to Americans. WSJ’s Daniela Hernandez breaks down why testing is still a ...