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Northern Ireland is lagging far behind Great Britain on the wearing of face masks

Peter Donaghy (Salmon of Data) on July 27, 2020, 3:56 pm

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Over the last four months, the percentage of the population in Great Britain wearing face masks in public has steadily increased. However, data from YouGov suggests that the percentage of the population wearing masks in Northern Ireland has remained flat over the last few months, and as a result the percentage of the population wearing masks in Northern Ireland is now lagging significantly behind England, Scotland and Wales. The chart above shows how mask wearing rates by region in the …

Mask wearing rates in the UK are among the lowest in the world – it’s time for #MasksForAll

Peter Donaghy (Salmon of Data) on June 15, 2020, 7:30 am

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As social distancing measures are relaxed in Northern Ireland and elsewhere, it is vital that everything possible is done to attempt to prevent a secondary wave of Covid-19 infections. Of the actions that citizens and policymakers can take to mitigate against the risk of another wave of the coronavirus, Northern Ireland and Great Britain are amongst the world’s laggards on what has been found to be the most effective intervention against the virus; the universal wearing of masks. The chart …

Should we all wear face masks? Read my lips…

John Kyle on June 15, 2020, 7:00 am

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As understatements go it was a good one. “It would have been much better if there had been engagement….with devolved administrations ahead of this announcement” said Nichola Mallon referring, with impressive restraint, to the announcement by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps that face coverings would be compulsory on public transport in England from 15th June. Most people would assume that speaking to the other three Transport Ministers before announcing a significant change in policy was not only good manners but essential …

Attire for a pandemic. Let’s mask up…

Terry Maguire on May 29, 2020, 7:24 am

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My daughter who studied fashion at Uni. has found a lucrative niche in designer cloth face-masks and they’re proving popular with her fashion-conscious peers and their trendy mothers. My other daughter, teaching overseas, cannot leave her apartment without a surgical face-mask – the blue ones – and off course internationally there is more and more pressure to make the wearing of face-masks in public mandatory. Face-mask fashion is de rigueur, the modern equivalent of the late-medieval Plague Doctor’s attire with …