THE SHORTAGE of face masks for frontline health-care workers could be offset by making your own at home instead of buying them online. Here's a simple pattern you can use to make your own PPE. The ...

The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service. Follow this story and more by signing up for health, science, and environment email alerts. On Friday, President ...

Guidance on whether to wear a face mask to limit the spread of coronavirus has been evolving. The Taoiseach says the Government is now advising people to wear face coverings on public transport and in ...

Guidance on whether to wear a face mask varies locally. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that all Americans, healthy and sick, wear basic cloth masks in public — a ...

After Boris Johnson’s address to the nation on Sunday 3 May, the government published a 60-page document called Our Plan to Rebuild. In the government document, it says people should "wear a ...

If you’re living in a Melbourne coronavirus hotspot, you’ve now been advised to wear a face mask when out in public. This is the first time in Australia we’ve been asked to wear masks, with the recent ...

Face mask style is a thing, and one Reykjavík designer has seriously upped the ante. The artist Ýrúrarí is a textile designer who works mostly with knitting. She says that "adding knitted 3D elements ...

FROM Monday June 15 face coverings will become mandatory on public transport in England. The new rules will apply on tubes, trains buses, ferries and planes but people will not have to wear them ...