<span style="color: #222222;">World Health Organization has renewed its guidance to recommend that governments ask everyone to wear fabric face masks in public areas where there is a risk of transmission of COVID-19. In a press briefing yesterday, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also said, people over age 60 or those with underlying medical conditions should wear a medical mask in situations where social distancing cannot be maintained.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He emphasized that masks on their own will not protect them from COVID-19 and stated the importance of hand-washing, social distancing and other measures.  WHO has previously only recommended that health care workers, those sickened by COVID-19 and their care givers wear masks.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Mr Tedros added that health workers in areas with widespread transmission should now wear medical masks in all areas of health facilities and not just those with confirmed COVID-19 patients. He said that doctors working in cardiology or other wards, for example, should continue to wear a medical mask even if there are no known Corona virus patients. </span> <br />