Double masking and wearing face shields had been emphasized by our Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah recently as one of the effective self-protection tip to combat Covid-19 mutated virus like Delta variant and Lambda variant. Here some tips to wear masks and face shield effectively.
- Disposable surgical mask (Fig.1) – Wear your mask correctly as stated here.
- Cloth mask (Fig.2) – Ensure that you wash your cloth mask everyday and replace the filter piece in your cloth mask. If you feel breathing difficulties while wearing double masks, you can switch to wear KN95 mask to replace double-masks (Fig.3).
- Face shield – The commonly-use face shield is the ease-to-wear product that can be used like you ae wearing the eyeglasses (click here to view). However this type of face shields not really suitable for long-term glasses wearers. Fortunately, there are innovative product that suitable for glasses wearers (click here to view)
