THE SHORTAGE of face masks for frontline health-care workers could be offset by making your own at home instead of buying them online. Here's a simple pattern you can use to make your own PPE. The ...

PLEATED face masks provide extra material to be pulled and stretched over your nose and lower chin. Here's how to make a pleated face mask. A cloth face covering should cover your mouth and nose while ...

In light of the coronavirus pandemic, face masks are in huge demand right now. Millions of masks are needed, and you can help. When asked to address a nationwide shortage of face masks on Saturday, ...

While the fabric masks alone will not prevent you catching Covid-19, they have been shown to stop asymptomatic carriers spreading the killer bug even further. Babak Javid, an infectious diseases ...

The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has made finding face masks at drugstores and supermarkets so difficult, the government has stepped in, announcing two cloth face masks will be sent to every ...

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Still, if you want to make a mask, here are simple, step-by-step instructions from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to do just that, whether or not you know how to sew. Not sure ...

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 ...