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THE Department of Health (DoH), revising its previous recommendation, urged the public to wear medical-grade face masks instead of cloth masks for increased protection against the more contagious Delta strain of Covid-19.
"An ordinary cloth mask is not medical grade - a medical-grade mask filters organisms in the air, it has certain layers that filter various organisms in specific particulate sizes," said Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire on Wednesday.
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