Elderly women wearing masks to curb the spread of the coronavirus chat as they sit with their dogs in Beijing, July 13, 2020.
Contracting the coronavirus doesn’t mean you’re immune to catching it again, according to a new study from King’s College London. And, the British government has banned Huawei from the county’s future 5G network. Also, the anonymous street artist, Banksy, has entered the mask debate with his latest work — a series of stencils on London’s Underground that features his trademark rats struggling to come to terms with surgical masks.
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