Even with Covid-19 vaccine, masks are here to stay, says chief of India's health research body, South Asia News & Top Stories


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NEW DELHI (XINHUA) - The head of India's top health research body has said that health protocols to tackle the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic will stay for a long time and people will have to keep wearing masks even after a vaccine is available. "(The mask) works like a vaccine. So it may have to be used for a long time," Professor Balram Bhargava from the Indian Council of Medical Research said during a webinar titled "Changing paradigms in Covid-19 management" at Lucknow's King George Medical University on Saturday (Nov 28). He said that masks play an important role in keeping...