Face masks

More than 50% of people infected with Covid have reported sneezing as a symptom on the ZOE Covid app. Interestingly it tends to be more common among people who have been vaccinated and then tested positive for the virus.

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Fans of Red light therapy claim it can reduce the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines.

What is Red Light Therapy, does it work and are there any benefits?

Some festivalgoers at Glastonbury Festival.

Festival goers reveal quirky hacks

Going dancng was the favourite place to meet the opposite sex and in Sheffield it usually meant the Locarno or City Hall Ballroom

Looking Back: Did you meet in the City Hall Ballroom?

Barnsley Hospital have asked patients, visitors and staff in their Emergency Department to wear a face mask due to a rise in respiratory illnesses.

Face mask ask from hospital as respiratory illnesses rise

Hospitals in Sheffield are bringing back mask rules

Sheffield hospitals bring back mask rules to combat Covid case rise

Symptoms of Arcturus as new Covid strain claims five lives

New highly-infectious covid strain Arcturus kills five Brits

Face masks are now mandatory in all indoor venues and on public transport in Cyprus (Photo: Getty Images)

Warning to holidaymakers as European holiday spot brings back Covid rules

Rules that require face masks to be worn indoors could be brought back (Photo: Getty Images)

Spain could bring back Covid face mask rules before summer holidays

New Year’s Eve parties have been given the green light to go ahead in England (Photo: Getty Images)

New Year parties given green light in England as new restrictions ruled out

Greg Fell said that the Omicron variant will spread rapidly and it is unknown if plan B measures will be enough to contain it.

Sheffield health chief on Omicron: "I am quite stark about it and really quite w...

Face masks must be worn in shops and on public transport in England (Photo: Getty Images)

All the places you now have to wear a face mask in England - and where you don’t

Face coverings are now compulsory again in shops and on public transport in England as part of new measures aiming to prevent the spread of the new Covid Omicron variant (Photo: ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Face masks now compulsory in shops and on public transport in England amid sprea...

Signs make it clear that masks still must be worn in Sheffield Interchange, but many are ignoring them and ditching masks

Transport interchange users ignoring official mask rules

Public transport users in South Yorkshire wearing masks as they travel by bus.

Letter: So why have we all been wearing masks?

Stagecoach Supertram.

Sheffield Tramlines 2021: Urgent update given on tram services for this weekend'...

Face masks and working from home 'could be reintroduced by mid-August' amid risi...

Sheffield GP Dr Ollie Hart

Sheffield GP backs calls to vaccinate more children against Covid

Hospital patients, visitors and staff in Sheffield are being asked to continue wearing masks

Covid patients in Sheffield hospitals passes 50 after steep rise

These are the rules around wearing a mask after July 19 Freedom Day for all the supermarkets in Sheffield including Tesco, Aldi and Sainsbury's. Picture: Google Maps.

These are the latest policies on wearing a face mask in Sheffield’s supermarkets

Boris Johnson has called for caution as most lockdown restrictions in England have been lifted (Getty Images)

Boris Johnson urges caution as most lockdown restrictions in England are lifted

Guidance is expected to recommend face masks be worn in enclosed and crowded indoor spaces, such as public transport (Photo: Getty Images)

Face masks still ‘expected’ to be worn in enclosed indoor areas after 19 July Fr...

A trip to the shops won’t look quite the same as it did pre-pandemic (Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

The Covid restrictions that will change for retailers on 17 May – and what they ...

Meadowhall 'local hero' Suzanne Parsons with some of the toys she collected as part of a Christmas appeal to ensure no children went without gifts

Meadowhall honours tattoo artist and Covid hero who sews memory bears for grievi...

Face masks may not be required in indoor spaces during the summer months, a Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England has said (Photo: Shutterstock)

Face masks may not be required indoors over summer - according to Deputy Chief M...

Morrisons said the incident was isolated and does not reflect their policy.

Morrisons apologises after staff phoned police on man who refused to wear mask

A homeless person sleeps in the doorway of a closed-down Poundland store in York, north west England on January 6, 2021, on the second day of Britain's national lockdown to combat the spread of COVID-19. - England went back into full lockdown as Europe battled Wednesday to stem a rising tide of coronavirus cases, and the United States logged its worst daily death toll of the pandemic. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP) (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

These lockdown rules could change as Gov't looks into tougher measures

Chief Medical Officer for England Chris Whitty attends a virtual news conference (Photo by Henry Nicholls/WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Chris Whitty says Covid restrictions should not be relaxed as Sheffield’s infect...

Covid vaccinations were given out for the first time yesterday.

Sheffield NHS worker hails ‘painless’ Covid-19 vaccine – but has a ‘bit of a sor...

Shoppers wearing face masks walk past a sign calling for the wearing of face coverings in shops, in the city centre of Sheffield. (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Face masks still needed until late 2021 in spite of vaccine

The effectiveness of face masks lessens when they get wet, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other health experts have warned (Photo: Shutterstock)

Face masks become less effective in the rain - here’s what experts are saying

Soak up Italian culture this autumn, within crowd-free city walls

The number of droplets was more than 1,000 times lower when wearing even a single layer cotton mask (Photo: Shutterstock)

Face masks are 'tremendously effective' at curbing the spread of Covid-19 - here...

Nightclubs will be shut once again, and face masks will be made compulsory in some spaces, after data showed new cases of coronavirus in the past week had more than doubled compared with three weeks ago (Photo: TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)

Italy is closing nightclubs and making face masks mandatory in areas close to ba...

Boris Johnson announced on 12 July that face masks will become mandatory to wear in shops in England, from Friday 24 July (Photo: Shutterstock)

What is the fine for not wearing a face mask? How much you’ll have to pay if you...

New restrictions have been imposed on the island of Poros until 17 August (Photo: Shutterstock)

The Foreign Office has updated its travel advice for Greece - these are the new ...

Do children have to wear face masks on flights? (Photo: Shutterstock)

These are the rules around children wearing face masks on planes - from Easyjet,...

Face masks must be worn in indoor venues like cinemas, galleries and places of worship from Saturday 8 August (Photo: Shutterstock)

You must soon wear a face mask in cinemas, museums and churches - here's the lat...

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A second man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of Mazin Kaladi in Sheffield.

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