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Coronavirus: Do face masks actually work?
We're being told to wear masks more and more. But do they offer protection from Covid-19?
After Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructs all Israelis to wear face masks in public, we ask, when are masks useful and when are they not?
Also on the programme: Could cruise ships have done more to reduce on-board coronavirus infections? And, historian Yuval Noah Harari says we have stark choices to make about our post-pandemic future.
(Picture: A woman wearing a face mask is reflected in a window as she leaves a shop in Tokyo, Japan. Credit: Carl Court/Getty Images)
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Thu 2 Apr 202013:06GMT
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