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SINGAPORE - I received many enquiries from readers after I wrote about making masks at home with my mother Sheila Khoo, 68, a sewing enthusiast who makes cloth masks to give to friends. She uses ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Want to make a mask to protect yourself, your community and your healthcare workers from the coronavirus? We’ve compiled simple step-by-step directions. You can follow them to make ...

CHICAGO -- Bill Purdue waterproofs basements for a living, but he has spent the past few days in his buddy's Washington, Indiana, auto trim and upholstery shop cutting rectangles of cotton fabric that ...

After this pandemic is over, I’m going to keep on stitching. I did a lot of sewing as a teenager. It felt like an invisible cocoon took shape around me as I guided the fabric with my fingertips to the ...

FROM Monday June 15 face coverings will become mandatory on public transport in England. The new rules will apply on tubes, trains buses, ferries and planes but people will not have to wear them ...

CNN Underscored has interviewed experts to find the best options to help you cope during this uncertain time. Find all our coronavirus-related coverage here, and let us know your thoughts here. The ...

It was the last thing Sabrina Roffman of New City, New York, wanted to hear: In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, local medical facilities were running out of protective face masks. Her husband, ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WTLV) — As healthcare workers continue their stressful regimens of caring for patients amid the COVID-19 outbreak, many await the arrival of more protective gear to keep them safe ...