Victorians in locked-down areas are being encouraged to wear masks when social distancing is impossible to help curb the spread of coronavirus in the state.
Five million Victorians are being encouraged to wear masks, and even make their own, to help curb the spread of the coronavirus in the state.
"I think people will need to make their own masks," Professor Sutton said on Thursday afternoon, after the state recorded 165 new cases. But Dr Alex Polyakov, the director of the Master of Infectious Diseases Intelligence program at UNSW Sydney, wants their use to be much more widespread. "I do feel we need to get to a stage where the wearing of masks is more normalised in our society," he said.
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