A top health official from Telangana on Wednesday advised people to wear masks even inside homes while warning them about the possibility ...
A top health official from Telangana on Wednesday advised people to wear masks even inside homes while warning them about the possibility of spreading the coronavirus infection indoors, The News Minute reported.
“From now on, wear a mask even at home,” the state’s Public Health Director G Srinivasa Rao said in a video message. “If you return home from outside and remove your mask, there is a possibility of infecting your family members and they could lose their lives.”
Rao said that the virus was airborne and could transmit at a very fast rate inside homes. “If someone in a family is infected, then it is just taking a few hours, or at most a day or two for others in the family also to get infected by Covid-19, especially in closed settings of homes,” he said, according to the Deccan Chronicle.
He said the situation was “extremely dangerous” and added that the government had not yet imposed a lockdown only because it wanted to ensure people’s livelihoods were not affected.
Portion of the video where the Director of Public Health asks everyone to wear a mask even at home. Take care, people. pic.twitter.com/0dWmerUXyS
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Rao’s comment came as Telangana, like most other states in the country, continued to report a high number...
