Austria Has 90% Drop in Coronavirus Cases After Requiring People to Wear Face Masks

Austria Has 90% Drop in Coronavirus Cases After Requiring People to Wear Face Masks

Yep. It's a bit late, but I missed this one the first time around.

Who knew?

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The number of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in Austria dropped from 90 to 10 cases per one million people, two weeks after the government required everyone to wear a face mask on April 6.

According to Daily Mail, "Austria seemingly managed to reverse its crisis by making masks compulsory on April 6, following a spike in infections in late March."

This contradicted what the United Kingdom (UK) government told its citizens. They are denying that masks are effective if used by the general public.

However, Public Health England (PHE) says wearing a mask could spread the virus. It causes people to touch their face and increases the chances of a person acquiring the virus.

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This isn't the case in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. As two of the first countries to make masks compulsory in Europe, they now enjoy a small infection rate per capita.

Daily Mail said, "63 Czechs per 100,000 has been infected and less than two per 100,000 have died from the virus." It's lower in Slovakia, "21 per 100,000 people have caught it and just 0.2 per 100,000 have succumbed to the illness."

In contrast, 182 out of 100,000 British have been infected, while 25 per 100,000 have died because of COVID-19.

"The big mistake in the US and Europe, in my opinion, is that people aren't wearing masks," said George Gao, the director-general of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, to Telegraph.