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Covid-19 crisis: India draws lessons from Bangladesh's mask study

A study in Bangladesh's semi-rural and rural areas shows people can be convinced to keep their masks up

To prepare the groundwork, the researchers had distributed effective but cheap surgical masks to the villages covered by the study
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To prepare the groundwork, the researchers had distributed effective but cheap surgical masks to the villages covered by the study

Subhomoy Bhattacharjee New Delhi
A recently conducted massive trial of mask usage in Bangladesh could inform public policy in India for rural areas against Covid, particularly as a temporary substitute for vaccines.
 
“Vaccinations will take a long time to arrive in South Asia to create a wall of immunity. Till then, masks are most essential,” said Mushfiq Mobarak, professor of economics at Yale university who led the study.
 
Enthused by the learnings, Self Employed Women’s Association, or Sewa, has rolled out a similar experiment for the two million women in its network in Gujarat and Rajasthan. State governments like Telangana and Bihar

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