COVID-19 Prevention: Facemasks are meant to be used just once – Dr Olufunmilayo.
Amidst the coronavirus pandemic, UK based Nigerian Doctor, Dr Olufunmilayo, has advised Nigerians to stop using facemasks more than once saying the purpose becomes defeated when you do that. He went further to say face masks are not meant to be washed and re-used but instead to be discarded after use.
He said this in a series of tweets from his Twitter handle:
Facemasks are meant to be used just once.
Face masks are to be used once and discarded.
Face masks are meant to be used just once.
Facemasks are to be used once and no re-use.
Face masks are to be used once.
Don’t wear facemask and put in your back pocket to wear later.
It is “use and discard”.
Once you remove, discard.
If you remove a face mask and you re-use it, you will infect yourself with whatever virus the facemask picks up when you put it on the table, in your pocket or anywhere else.
You are better off using a new face mask, or leaving your face alone, than re-using a dirty used mask.
“But it’s expensive”
Well it’s unwise to re-use a dirty face mask because you will re-infect yourself, by rubbing germs/viruses on your face whenever you reuse it.
So you are wasting your time.
IF you are well, IF you are not attending to a sick person, YOU DO NOT NEED A MASK.
Facemasks are NOT to be washed.
Face masks are NOT to be washed.
Face masks are NOT to be washed.
Face masks are NOT to be washed.
Face masks are NOT to be washed.
Facemasks are NOT to be washed.
Facemasks are NOT to be washed.
Facemasks are NOT to be washed.
Please tell everybody.
Let’s pass out the right message.
There’s NO magic to facemasks.
Except you are sick yourself,
Except you attend to a sick person,
Except you are going to a place full of sick people like a hospital,
YOU DO NOT NEED A FACEMASK.
But if you choose to wear one
Never wash or reuse.
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