While surgical masks won’t remove the chance of contracting Covid-19, there is evidence which suggests they reduce the chance of infection, the severity of infection and the spread of the disease.

The Scottish Police Federation has claimed new personal protective equipment for officers will not provide any "meaningful protection". Police Scotland announced staff would be given surgical face ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Western countries have begun to embrace the mass public use of face masks to combat coronavirus in a growing ...

BOOTS have announced that they will be launching a new range of disposable face masks in store next month. Offering a higher level of protection, the masks aim to help curb the spread of COVID-19.

The optimistically titled Million Mask demonstration last night, which actually attracted only a few thousand participants, was disruptive and intimidating out of all proportion to the numbers ...

A Derby man walked through London with only a face mask covering his modesty in an anti-mask demonstration. Timothy Shieff strode from Bond Street to Buckingham Palace last Friday to protest against ...