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Even more symbolic was the European Parliament's move on 28 April to oblige all its MEPs and staff to wear face masks on all sites of the European institution (Photo: European Parliament)

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How West learnt from East to wear face masks

Even more symbolic was the European Parliament's move on 28 April to oblige all its MEPs and staff to wear face masks on all sites of the European institution (Photo: European Parliament)

European countries have been turning towards the use of face masks in their coronavirus exit strategies since the end of April.

Asian Europeans were the earliest adopters of masks when the virus first started making waves in the West.

While they are dealing with public discrimination over their ethnicity and masks, Europe is now scrambling to make masks available for everyone and in same cases even mandatory.

The global outbreak of the novel coronavirus has seen stores wo...

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