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Masks made with fabric from Alexandria-based Artistic Artifacts.
Visit Alexandria's ALX at Home website has launched a new section providing information on where Alexandria area residents can get face masks or face coverings.
"With the CDC’s recommendations for everyone to wear a cloth face covering while out in public if they can’t maintain six feet of physical distance from others, and the likelihood that this will be the new temporary norm, we’ve compiled a list of Alexandria boutiques and businesses making non-medical-grade face coverings," according to Visit Alexandria.
The purpose of wearing a cloth face mask is to help prevent the wearer from spreading the virus to healthy people, especially now that the CDC is discovering that people can transmit the virus without having any symptoms themselves.
