South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “See-through masks from Hong Kong open up communication for lip-readers during pandemic” – below is their description.
Wearing a face mask in most public spaces has been mandatory in Hong Kong since July 2020 as part of the city’s battle against the pandemic. But face masks have had a negative impact on the daily lives of the city’s hearing-impaired community, especially for those who lip-read to communicate. Hong Kong’s Lingnan University has come up with an award-winning solution in the form of reusable, transparent masks that allow deaf people to lip-read while still protecting them from Covid-19. Their “12° Mask” earned a gold award on September 14, 2021, at the international MUSE Design Awards in the Conceptual Design category.
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In This Story: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.