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The UK’s largest airport has dropped mandatory face masks for passengers. Heathrow Airport no longer requires people to wear them at its terminals, railway stations or office buildings but will continue to recommend they do, reports...

Keeping a minimum of one metre from other people as wearing face coverings and eye protection, in and outdoors of health-care settings, can be the most effective way to decrease the chance of viral infection or...

140,000 face masks have been seized by French Police, destined to be sold on the black market. A businessman unloading the masks from a truck into a house in St Denis, north of Paris has been caught,...

Indonesia has ordered its citizens to wear cloth face masks when going outside as the numbers of coronavirus infections rise to 2,273 on Sunday, Health Ministry official Achmad Yurianto said. “Everybody must wear face masks. Surgical...

Some 1,400 3D-printer owners have pledged to use their machines to help make face shields for the NHS. Started by palliative-medicine doctor James Coxon, the 3DCrowd UK group is now looking to recruit more volunteers. It...

Carmakers are answering calls from governments to help make more ventilators and face masks to help out during the coronavirus pandemic. On Monday Fiat began converting one of its car plants in China to start making...

A few smiles were visible in Madrid on Saturday but most kept their faces covered as Spain dropped its requirement for people to wear masks in the street. It’s been a legal requirement to wear a...

Facebook said yesterday it will offer reminders to its users to wear protective masks, responding to the latest increase in coronavirus cases in US, which has sparked renewed fears of containing the pandemic. They said it’d add...

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Sunday that the social media company has donated its emergency reserve of 720,000 masks to provide health workers with more protective gear. “To help, Facebook donated our emergency reserve...

Wearing masks will be obligatory again in Spain’s hospitals and other healthcare facilities from Wednesday, the health ministry said on Monday as the country faces a flu outbreak. The decree was announced after a meeting between...