Coronavirus face masks: Why men are less likely to wear masks

Her husband Eduardo had repeatedly refused to wear a face mask as the Covid-19 pandemic grew in Brazil - the country with the second-highest number of coronavirus deaths, behind only the US. So she decided to leave the family apartment in Niteroi (a city of 480,000 people near Rio de Janeiro), and move to her parents' house with their seven-year-old son. 'I am asthmatic and that makes me particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus. But my husband thought I was being paranoid,' she tells the BBC. 'His reasoning was that he didn't need a mask because when he left home he didn't go to enclosed spaces. 'He wasn't thinking that he was putting me and our son at a higher risk.'