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  • Billionaire Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis on Sunday told US President Donald Trump to make wearing face masks in public mandatory to try to stem spiralling coronavirus infections. "Mr. President @realDonaldTrump, try tackling virus the Czech way," tweeted Babis, who like Trump is a mogul businessman turned populist politician. "Wearing a simple cloth mask decreases the spread of the virus by 80%! Czech Republic has made it OBLIGATORY for its citizens to wear a mask in the public," he said, adding "Pls retweet. God bless America!" Babis failed to quote a scientific source backing the claim that masks cut the rate of COVID-19 infection by 80 percent. There is little agreement in scientific circles as to whether healthy people wearing masks is effective protection against the novel coronavirus and different countries have varying levels of advice on the subject. Numerous health institutions have urged the public not to buy masks due to mass shortages. The World Health Organization recommends that healthy people only need to wear a mask if they are taking care of someone suspected of being infected. In the US, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has similar advice, saying you should only wear a mask if you are sick or caring for someone who is. But an unrelated 2009 CDC study said that masks "could be considered under certain circumstances" in communities where the H1N1-type Influenza A virus, more commonly known as "swine flu", is present. In Wuhan, the Chinese city where the virus emerged in December, authorities have made it mandatory to wear a mask in public places, according to the state-run People's Daily. Earlier this month, Babis's government came under fire over a dire shortage of face masks, which prompted tens of thousands of Czech women to switch on their sewing machines and make their own protective gear. Prague has since also begun to import medical supplies from China. Aside from making masks mandatory, Prague has also closed borders, schools, most shops and all pubs to stem infections. An EU country of 10.7 million, the Czech Republic has confirmed 2,663 cases of COVID-19, including 11 recovered patients and 13 deaths as of Sunday. The US now has the highest number of confirmed COVID-19 infections globally with more than 124,000 cases, according to the Johns Hopkins tally. frj/mas/dl
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  • Czech PM to Trump: use masks to stem virus spread
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