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World Service,01 Apr 2020,53 mins

Coronavirus: the case for wearing a mask

Newsday

Available for over a year

But are there enough masks available for everyone who wants to wear one? And are they really effective? A prominent Italian doctor tells us why he thinks quarantining people with their families was wrong - saying his country should have followed the Chinese model of keeping them in separate quarantine centres. And how an engineer taught himself to dismantle ventilators and reconfigure them work for Covid-19 patients.

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