COVID-appropriate facemask use: A study among patients attending outpatient Departments of a Public Health Institute in West Bengal

• Main Authors: Arpita Das (Author), Biswadip Chattopadhyay (Author), Bobby Paul (Author), Lina Bandyopadhyay (Author), Madhumita Bhattacharyya (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: In the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, facemask use has been the most feasible public health measure in preventing transmission of SARS-CoV2 with the dual benefit of controlling the source of infection and decreasing the risk of acquiring infection from infected people. Therefore, COVID-appro...