In response to the current epidemic person, you should first wear a mask

Regarding the current outbreak of the province, Ye Feng, chief physician of the Department of Infectious Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, was interviewed by a reporter on August 23 that cases in many places in the province in the recent province should do a good job of personal protection and first wear a mask correctly.

"Correctly wearing a mask is a key means to block virus spread." Ye Feng said that the current situation of the epidemic situation is complicated and severe. Prevention and control measures and continuously strengthen personal protection. Scientific wearing masks is an important criterion for self -protection.

"Although wearing a mask cannot prevent virus infection 100%, it can play a certain prevention role." Ye Feng told reporters that if both health and infected people do not wear a mask, the probability of infection is as high as 90%. Healthy people wear masks and new -crown virus infection does not wear masks, and the probability of infection is 30%; those who are infected with healthy people wearing masks wear masks, and the probability of infection is reduced to 5%. If healthy people and infected people wear masks, the virus infection rate is only 1.5%. When both wearing masks and the effective protection distance is greater than 1.8 meters, the probability of infection will be reduced to 0.

What occasions should we wear a mask? In this regard, Ye Feng said that citizens should follow the requirements of the "Code of Citizen's Basic Conduct". When taking the elevator, when taking public transportation, when entering public transport, they enter the densely personnel indoor public places (such as shopping malls, supermarkets, cinemas, venues, and hotels),,,, when When the restaurant and the cafeteria are in non -eclipse, when they are densely personally -intensive squares, parks and other outdoor places, they should wear disposable medical masks; when symptoms such as fever, dry cough, fatigue, sore throat, etc. During a healthy inspection, it is recommended to wear a medical surgical mask or the above -class mask. The mask needs to be replaced in time, and the cumulative wearing time for each mask does not exceed 8 hours.

"Of course, in addition to the correct wearing a mask, there are other protective measures." Ye Feng reminded that in addition to wearing a mask, it also includes insisting on hard -working hands, paying attention to cough etiquette, less gathering, civilized dining Do a good job of cleaning and disinfection, developing a healthy lifestyle, participating in nucleic acid testing, etc.! "As long as each of us protects it, we will be able to defeat the epidemic as soon as possible." Ye Feng said.

Source: Text/Figure Xi'an Newspaper All Media Reporter Wang Chao

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