Coronavirus: how worried should I be about the shortage of face masks? Or can I just use a scarf?

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Read The conversation article by UNSW  Prof Raina Macintyre and Dr Abrar Chughtai

While news of mask shortages might sound scary, if you are in a country with few isolated cases, you don’t need one anyway as the risk of infection is very low for the general public.