New Year'S Eve Of The Ox: Why Are Masks Popular!

During the Spring Festival, there is a happy and festive atmosphere everywhere. This year's Spring Festival, masks have become an indispensable new year's goods. Many "New Year's masks" printed with the words "full of pride" or cartoon ox patterns are selling well.

"New Year's mask" hot sale

Search for key words such as "New Year's mask" on the e-commerce platform, and you will see colorful and various patterns of fancy masks. On the outer surface of the mask, some are printed with auspicious words such as "full of pride" and "congratulations on becoming rich", while others are printed with cartoon patterns such as the zodiac ox. The price of a mask is mostly within one yuan.

Zhang Bo, head of health monitoring department of Jingdong Health Group: since the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, the number of consumers who search for new year masks and related keywords on the platform has exceeded 1.5 million. In some stores, the evaluation number of masks has exceeded 100000, and some styles are actually sold out.

Taobao staff member Chen Yu: in the two weeks before the festival, the average daily sales of new year masks on Taobao increased by 180% year on year, of which 80% were female consumers.

In this year's CCTV Spring Festival Gala, "Spring Festival Gala red mask" is particularly eye-catching.

Liu Junyi, brand director of SAIC general Wuling Automobile Co., Ltd.: during the design process of this Spring Festival Gala mask, I spent a lot of efforts to customize the cloth of this mask, and designed beautiful colors for it, including the elements of the Spring Festival Gala and the logo of the Spring Festival Gala. We specially customized the corresponding equipment, specially let the engineers to study how to make the full color picture, can really present on the cloth.

After the popularity of customized masks for the Spring Festival Gala, on the e-commerce platform, products with the "same type of masks for the Spring Festival Gala" have been sold in recent years. Subsequently, relevant manufacturers issued a statement stressing that at present, CCTV Spring Festival Gala masks are only free but not sold. The same masks sold online are not genuine.

How to choose and buy masks

For the year of the ox Spring Festival essential new year mask, people not only care about whether it has a good appearance, but also the protective effect of the mask. So, when buying masks, what identification methods and precautions are there?

According to the use environment and protection requirements, masks are divided into different types.

Medical protective mask, suitable for medical working environment, can filter particles in the air. It is a self-priming filtering medical protective mask which can block droplets, blood, body fluids, secretions, etc.

Medical surgical mask is suitable for clinical medical staff to wear in the process of invasive operation.

Disposable medical masks are suitable for wearing in general medical environment and public places.

Yang Lei, director of Banqiao New Town Branch of Yuhuatai District Market Supervision Bureau, Nanjing: pay attention to the packaging of masks. Generally, the name, factory name and address should be complete, and the manufacturer's qualification and production license number should be provided. In particular, the disposable medical masks and surgical masks for medical devices are provided with the production certificate number of the medical devices. According to the license number, you can inquire through the website of the State Administration of market supervision.

According to the recommendations of the National Health Commission, it is recommended to wear disposable medical masks when going to office areas, medical institutions and other public places; it is recommended to wear medical surgical masks in general outpatient and ward, when engaged in epidemic related work such as cold chain.

Ding Xinmin, chief physician of respiratory and critical care department of Beijing Shijitan Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University: masks that can achieve virus protection must be above medical surgical masks. The ordinary protective mask can't protect the virus. It is suggested to wear medical surgical masks in densely populated places and do a good job in protection.