CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- As resumption of work and production starts, you could see many passengers in a hurry in streets and lanes recently. For better protection during the period of travelling, office hours and getting out for purchase, many citizens make a brainstorm and find many ways to make special “equipment”, such as wearing a raincoat, shoe covers and gas mask. Are these “gadgets” useful and necessary? Let the expert explain for you with pictures.

In a community in Yubei District, a citizen loaded the purchased goods from a tax. In addition to wearing a mask, he also wore a raincoat and disposable gloves to “be armed to the teeth”.

In a supermarket, the man wore a gas mask. Even everyone took protective measures when getting out these days, such equipment was still a bit exaggerated.

No matter for couples or friends, is it necessary to replace protective clothing with raincoats of various styles?

According to Feng Shaoquan, Chief and Associate Senior Technician of Disinfection and Vector Biology and Control Division of Chongqing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, it is unnecessary for ordinary citizens to wear raincoats, gloves or gas masks in daily life. Meanwhile, he also reminded the citizens not to go out as far as possible during the outbreak.

In the street, such head-to-toe protection is not rare. According to the expert, it is enough to wear a mask and maintain personal hygienic habits and not to have close contact with others in uncrowded and well-ventilated outdoor circumstances.

Does wearing multiple masks means multi-layer protection? The expert said that one mask was enough. Wearing several masks may lead to imperfect fitting between the mask and face, resulting in unsatisfactory protective effect.

The property management personnel needs to check the owner certificate for resident getting in and out the resident community. According to Feng Shaoquan, the close contact exists when a resident hands over the certificate, which also poses a risk of infection, so the expert recommended the no-delivery handover and checking. The holder shows the certificate and the management personnel check it visually.

On February 10, at a community of Danzishi, residents queued up to get their pass cards, with an about 1-meter spacing consciously left by them. As for the special queue, the expert said that when a person wearing a mask was interacting with others, it was better to keep a distance of more than 1 meter, and a distance of 1.5 meters or more is safer.

Some citizens are afraid that it may exist a transmission risk to buy vegetables for the vegetable selecting. “It’s very unlikely that the virus gets attached to vegetables in supermarkets,” said Feng Shaoquan. If you feel unassured, you can cover your hand with a supermarket disposable bag when selecting vegetables and wash the vegetables with running water after getting home. (Translated by Huang Juan, Fathom Language Limited)