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UK Considers Mandating Gloves While Nordic Countries Ditch Masks

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Ministers in the UK House of Lords are debating whether the next step for fighting COVID-19 should be to mandate gloves for all. “The exchanges came on the day people in England were required to start wearing face coverings in shops, shopping centres, banks, takeaways, post offices, sandwich shops and supermarkets or risk a £100 fine,” MSN reported.

Gloves aren’t in the official government guidances yet, but it’s possible they should be, the Lords said. Meanwhile, the majority of people in the Nordic countries of Sweden, Finland and Norway are choosing not to wear masks, and The Netherlands government officials declined to mandate masks, saying “there is no proven effectiveness” for them.

SOURCES:

MSN July 25, 2020

Yahoo! News July 30, 2020

Reuters July 29, 2020