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The Queen could be asked to set an example to the British public by wearing a mask for photographs in order to normalise the face coverings and encourage others to use them.
A government adviser suggested her majesty's endorsement of face masks would see an uptake in their use, thuê xe ô tô giá rẻ tại hà nội as they become mandatory for shoppers across the UK on Friday.
Sir David Attenborough was another influential person marked for the job of mask-wearing role model, reports [ ]
Both are classed as elderly - at 94-years-old - and are therefore in a high risk category if faced with [/news/coronavirus/index.html covid-19].
During lockdown the Queen has not attended public duties and has been staying far from Buckingham Palace, instead hiding out at Windsor Castle with a 'royal bubble' of loyal staff.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth sits next to David Attenborough during the annual Chatham House award in London, Britain November 20, 2019
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Meanwhile the iconic natural historian, Sir Attenborough, is said to be working on his forthcoming BBC One show Perfect Planet from his Richmond home, filming links in his garden.
Data published by The Office of National Statistics at the end of May found that only one third of Britons are regularly wearing a face mask.
Professor Robert West, of the government's SPI-B behavioural science advisory group, said that the countries favourite role models should be used to promote face mask wearers.
He told [ ]: 'David Attenborough and the Queen, that's who they want.
I'm surprised how little use has been made of role models.'
From Friday shoppers who fail to wear a mask risk fines of £100 under the plans to stop a second wave of coronavirus.
Doing his part: The natural historian, 94, is said to be recording voice-overs for BBC One's Perfect Planet from a room which he has made sound-proof by taping a duvet to the walls
Only young children or those with certain disabilities will be exempt from the new regulations which come in on Friday, July 24.
Retailers will be asked to advise customers to wear masks but their staff will not be expected to enforce the law.
Instead, police will be given powers to dish out fines.
The law will require people to wear simple cloth face coverings, rather than the medical grade masks used by front-line NHS workers.
Since the start of the pandemic The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) have wrestled with contradictory research regarding the effectiveness of face masks - which were made mandatory on public transport at the beginning of June.
They have since come to the conclusion that masks do help to slow transmission, after results from a German study, however the official line remains that masks are 'marginally beneficial' and not classed as PPE in hospitals.
The move to make masks mandatory in shops may anger those who find them uncomfortable or dislike the idea of state compulsion.
One libertarian Tory MP has already vowed to stop shopping rather than wear a mask.
But Boris Johnson yesterday said they were important in confined spaces as 'a kind of extra insurance'.
A Downing Street spokesman said: 'There is growing evidence that wearing a face covering in an enclosed space helps protect individuals and those around them from coronavirus.'
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