Beijing: The head of a hospital involved in handling the coronavirus crisis in China's epicentre Wuhan on Monday said wearing masks and mandatory isolation of people with mild symptoms in special centres instead of their homes are essential to contain the spread of the vicious virus.
Wang Xinghuan, the head of the Wuhan Leishenshan (Thunder God Mountain) Hospital, advocated the use of facial masks specially in cities like New York which are experience a higher rate of cases and casualties of coronavirus.
Citing the experience of Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, for which he is the president, Wang told the local media that some medics in non-Covid-19 treating departments contracted the coronavirus at the early stage of the outbreak