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Coronavirus: Wearing face masks at home could help curb spread of COVID-19, study claims

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Wearing face masks at home might help stop Covid-19 from infecting your family who live in the same household, according to a new study.

This approach has been seen to be 79 per cent effective at curbing transmission but the masks need to be used before symptoms develop in anyone in the household who is infected.

The findings, which appear in BMJ Global Health, are based on answers from 124 families in Beijing, China, who had at least one confirmed case of Covid-19 infection, about their household hygiene and behaviour during the pandemic.

Disinfection was found to be 77 per cent effective at stopping the virus from being passed on. There were a total of 460 people in the families who were part of the study and their confirmed case of

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