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New York's Broadway mandates vaccines, masks for all shows
PARIS: A nurse takes a bag of used protective face masks out of a designated recycling bin for used masks at the Saint-Antoine hospital in Paris. Used to curb the spread of COVID-19, masks are exacerbating another pandemic: Plastic pollution. - AFPnn

Mask mountain sets recycling challenge
A woman wearing a face mask walks along a street in Beijing on December 23, 2020. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP)

Masks block 99.9% of large COVID droplets
An Iraqi street vendor selling facemasks and disinfectants tends to customers in the capital Baghdad on December 4, 2020. - While much of the world fears Covid-19, Iraqis have mostly stopped wearing facemasks as they worry more about the pandemic's economic impact than the virus itself. In a war-scarred country burdened by rising job losses and deepening poverty, a majority of citizens seem to have shrugged off the global public health crisis. (Photo by Sabah ARAR / AFP)

Iraqis shed masks as economic pain grows
This photograph taken on September 16, 2020 shows Professor Chen Xiaodon from the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University talking to an AFP reporter regarding the development of a face mask that can monitor vital health information. - From monitoring vital signs, to filtering filthy air and even translating speech into myriad languages -- the coronavirus-fuelled boom in mask-wearing has spawned an unusual range of high-tech face coverings. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP) / TO GO WITH Singapore-Japan-SKorea-health-virus-technology-mask, FOCUS by Catherine Lai and Harumi Ozawa

Translation tools, air purifiers: Face masks go high-tech
People with protective mask walk on a pedestrian street in Lyon on August 22, 2020 on the first day of mandatory mask wearing in parts of city centre. - Masks are obligatory to curb the spread of COVID-19 disease caused by the novel coronavirus in France in open areas of some cities as well as on public transport and in enclosed spaces such as shops, banks and government offices. (Photo by PHILIPPE DESMAZES / AFP)

Costly, but transparent masks are boon for the deaf, hard of hearing
People commute early morning in Tokyo on August 17, 2020. - Japan's economy shrank a historic 7.8 percent in the April-June quarter, the worst contraction in the nation's modern history, as the coronavirus deepens the country's economic woes. (Photo by Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

Japan's low jobless rate masks worker despair
KUWAIT: KRCS and social affairs ministry officials pose for a group photo after handing over boxes containing the protective masks. — KUNA

45,500 protective masks for social care homes
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Local engineer makes ear savers for medical staff, frontliners
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