STOCKHOLM, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Researchers from Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Sweden on Monday recommended the use of face masks to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, as their latest findings showed that cloth face masks can reduce the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Sweden has so far counted 5,744 deaths and 81,012 infections in a population of over 10 million. Despite that, Sweden has neither imposed a lockdown -- even during the peak of the pandemic -- nor asked people to wear masks in public, quoting a lack of support in research.
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