This easy to understand infographic emphasizes on the use of double mask and its importance. The infographic is developed my Angshuman Kashyap who is a public health communication professional and an artist who creates and shares easy to understand health infographics on his social media pages (Instagram: @angshumankas).
Source: Double Masking for COVID-19
This article outlines seven steps on how to encourage behavioral change that would reduce transmission of COVID-19. Some of the steps include: creating a positive social norm around mask wearing, communicating the benefits of mask wearing, needing responsible media, compassionate leadership, etc.
Source: Behavioral Change Can Reduce Transmission
This poster, produced by Nepal’s National Health Education, Information and Communication Centre, shows how wearing a mask can reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19. It shows the level of risk when both the mask wearer and the other person don’t wear masks, when one of them wears a mask, and when both of them wear a mask.
Source: Wear a Mask, Reduce Risk
This poster, produced by Nepal’s National Health Education, Information and Communication Centre, explains the importance of wearing a mask for yours and others’ safety. It also explains how social (physical) distancing and hand washing can slow the spread of COVID-19.
Source: Use a Mask for your Safety and Others’ Safety
This is a poster which lists various COVID protocols including handwashing, physical distancing and wearing double masks.
Source: COVID Appropriate Behaviours
This 35 second video, produced by the India Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, explains the importance of properly wearing a mask while in an office setting in order to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Source: Wear your mask properly: In the Office
This 35 second video, produced by the India Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, explains the importance of properly wearing a mask while riding the bus and other forms of public transportation in order to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Source: Wear Your Mask Properly: On the Bus
New research by the agency shows that transmission of the virus can be reduced by up to 96.5 percent if both an infected individual and an uninfected individual wear tightly fitted surgical masks or a cloth-and-surgical-mask combination.
One option for reducing transmission is to wear a cloth mask over a surgical mask, the agency said. The alternative is to fit the surgical mask more tightly on the face by “knotting and tucking” — that is, knotting the two strands of the ear loops together where they attach to the edge of the mask, then folding and flattening the extra fabric at the mask’s edge and tucking it in for a tighter seal.
Other effective options that improve the fit include using a mask-fitter — a frame contoured to the face — over a mask, or wearing a sleeve of sheer nylon hosiery material around the neck and pulled up over a cloth or surgical mask, the C.D.C. said.
Source: The CDC Says Tight-Fit Masks or Double Masking Increases Protection
This video follows a young couple discussing the use of masks. The young woman convinces her boyfriend to use a mask to protect himself and others from COVID-19.
Source: Behind the Mask
This dashboard is a visualization of a study of global vaccine acceptance and is a collaboration among Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Facebook Data for Good, MIT, WHO and Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network.
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