Wall Street Journalのインスタグラム(wsj) - 1月9日 00時18分

India's mask campaign has been a surprising success. ⁠⠀
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The South Asian nation is a huge democracy, where the majority of people rarely agree on anything, but there is little debate about mask usage. From the moment the pandemic landed in India, politicians and health experts have been united about the importance of masks, and Indians have embraced them. ⁠⠀
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A healthy fear of the virus among the public, a unified voice from authorities, billions of automated phone messages and hundreds of thousands of masking-violation tickets have encouraged and enforced almost universal acceptance of masks without much debate.⁠⠀
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In September, India was reporting almost 100,000 Covid-19 cases a day, with many predicting it would soon pass the U.S. in overall cases. Instead, its infections dropped and are now at one-fourth that level despite often being too crowded for social distancing, having too many cases for effective contact tracing and an economy that isn’t well equipped to weather long lockdowns.⁠⠀
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“In India, individually, lots of people prevented infection by wearing masks,” said T. Jacob John, a retired professor of virology at the Christian Medical College in the southern city of Vellore. “It worked here.”⁠⠀
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Read more at the link in our bio.⁠⠀
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