Head of Health Surveillance, Dr. Asiedu Bekoe is urging the public to refrain from the habitual use of face shield without nose masks. According to him substituting face masks with face shields comes with huge risks of contracting the novel coronavirus.
Addressing the media at the Ministry of Information’s briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic this morning, Dr. Bekoe charged that these two protective gears are used together or if possible strictly adapt to the use of nose mask.
“…the first point of call is the face mask and I think that we will want to employ all Ghanaians to use the face mask because that is the surest way that you can actually prevent yourself from getting the infection.
“…it [face-shield] should not be an alternative to the use of a face mask and I want to assure all Ghanaians that it’s not for Convenience that we are replacing face shield with face mask but for a purpose of preventing the infection” he added.