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View all search resultsWearing masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus was not widespread in March, when a group of German tourists took a long flight home from Israel -- but researchers were surprised to find only two passengers outside the group had been infected.
Faced with an upsurge in coronavirus cases and alarm over images of summer crowds packing onto streets and beaches, some European governments have mandated masks even in open-air public places. But with many virus clusters sprouting behind closed doors in offices and other workplaces where face covering rules are less clear, experts have questioned if policies are focusing on the wrong target.
Wearing a face mask became compulsory on Wednesday in all public places in Brussels as the number of COVID-19 infections rose to a government alert level that puts the city among the worst affected in Europe.
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