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Cloth masks may prevent Covid-19 spread: Report

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The point of wearing masks is not that some particles can penetrate, but that every virus-laden particle retained in a mask is not available to hang in the air or fall to a surface to be later picked up by another person.

Cloth masks, particularly those with several layers of cotton fabric, can block droplet and aerosol contamination of the environment, and may reduce transmission of COVID-19, according to a new research.

Scientists, including those from McMaster University in Canada, said most virus transmission occurs via larger particles in secretions like droplets, generated while speaking, coughing, or sneezing, and some are created when water evaporates from these droplets, turning them into aerosol-sized particles.

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