Could masks affect newborn babies?

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THE onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted everybody, including children and newborns. Malaysian babies born after March 18, 2020 (the day the first nationwide lockdown came into force), will only know a world in the grip of a pandemic. They may not have met anyone who isn’t their parent or sibling and may only have seen other family members, including grandparents, from a distance or on a screen.

As long as the pandemic continues (along with movement restrictions), they certainly will not have the same opportunities to interact with others compared with children born before the pandemic began.