write a paragraph describing te procedure to make resubale mask at home use your own creative ideas.
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Ever since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, much before it was classified a pandemic by the World Health Organization, many countries shared concerns around a shortage of masks - surgical, N-95s and others.
While medical masks are available in India, many are urging that the general population leave those for use by our doctors and medical staff - who risk their lives daily to test, transport and treat COVID-19 patients.
Anyway, if you bought masks at the beginning of the lockdown, you may be running low on them now since medical masks can't be reused (yes, they are single-use masks). Add to this the fact that as precautionary measures have gone up in India over the past couple of weeks, you are being required to wear a mask to access many stores and services.
The Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India has a solution to this problem: reusable masks you can make at home.
Here’s what you’ll need for it:
1 piece of old 100% cotton fabric, any colour
4 pieces of cloth strips
Scissors
Sewing machine
Preparation:
Boil the cotton fabric in salted water for 5 minutes. Let it dry.
Cut the cloth strip for piping. You’ll need two pieces that are 1.5” x 5” and two of 1.5” x 40”.
Cut a 7” x 9” piece from the cotton fabric for an adult-size mask.
Instructions:
Fold the 7" x 9" cotton fabric breadthwise to create three downward-facing pleats. Each fold can be 1.5” of fabric. You can use cloth pins to maintain the folds for now. Once your pleats are made, the length of the fabric will go from 9” to 5”.
Now you can secure the pleats in their place by using the 1.5” x 5” strips as piping. Piping is folded three times (0.5” each fold) and goes onto both sides so as to create a ‘pipe’ around the raw edge.
Attach the centre of the long strip along the two edges now, but continue to sew beyond the cloth piece. These strings will be used to tie the mask around your head.
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