The team used only UV light and acetone in their process.

An easy way to minimise waste if you own N95 masks is to safely extend their life. In hospital settings, it's advised to avoid use beyond o...

Also, having keep fabric masks as a backup in your car, bag or pockets.

Unlike cloth masks, high-quality medical masks — called N95s, KN95s and KF94s — are made with layers of high-tech filtering material that t...

Critical shortages of these masks have driven efforts to find new decontamination methods.

Fifty minutes of dry heat in an electric cooker could effectively sanitise the masks.

"This low-cost reprocessing strategy can be applied 10 times without affecting the mask's filtration, breathing resistance, fit and comfort...

The survey, which was conducted from June 27 to July 10 by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in collaboration with Delhi gover...

The Director General of Health Services (DGHS) in the Ministry of Health, in a letter to the Principal Secretaries of health and medical ed...

The government had in March banned export of all kinds of masks to avoid any shortage in the country at a time when the COVID-19 outbreak h...

The algae in the respirator conduct photosynthesis and remove carbon dioxide (C02) and other air pollutants while producing oxygen, making ...

First Lady Savita Kovind on Wednesday stitched face masks at Shakti Haat in the President's Estate as part of the fight against COVID-19.

"We have reached a very amicable agreement with 3M for the delivery of an additional 55.5 million high quality facemasks each month," he sa...

Rebutting Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's charge that the Modi government delayed banning export of medical equipment linked to combating co...

Before Covid-19 outbreak, China produced about half of the world’s output of masks, as per state media Xinhua.

India put a ban on the exports of personal protective equipment, including surgical masks, gloves and N95 respirators. However, on February...

Swine flu panic appears to be spreading like an Australian bushfire. Guess what most Indians were looking for on Monday?