ROME (AP) — Italy, Spain and other European countries are reinstating or stiffening mask mandates as their hospitals struggle with mounting numbers of COVID-19 patients. Other nations like the ...

Confronting new, more transmissible variants of the coronavirus and a winter spike in infections, a number of European countries are beginning to make medical-grade face masks mandatory in the hope ...

People wearing protective masks leave Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital in Badalona MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's government proposed a nationwide mandate for people to wear masks in hospitals and health ...

A woman sews masks in the workshop of a small Czech company as tens of thousands of Europeans join forces via social media to combat a dire global shortage What do prisoners, a former first lady and ...

GENEVA -- Governments across Europe are ratcheting up restrictions to try to beat back a resurgence of the coronavirus that has sent new infections on the continent to their highest weekly level since ...

Europe could suffer another 700,000 Covid-19 deaths by March, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. It's the latest in a series of dire warnings for the region, which is in the grip of a ...

P95 and N95 are rating classifiers for masks manufactured to keep people from inhaling dust and other small particles in ...