Personal Protective Equipment for COVID-19

COVID-19 has resulted a change in the mindset of human beings and a strong emphasis has been spread among the public that precaution is the better way to protect oneself from this pandemic. Various personal protective equipments (PPE) are used to protect human beings from COVID-19. Requirements of PPE for healthcare professionals differ from that of COVID affected victims and healthy persons. Standards for the care of COVID affected patients are recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). Protection from physical contacts and airborne salivary droplets are essential to protect from infectious virus, which is largely met by commercially available masks with different efficiency levels. Personal protective equipment including surgical gloves, goggles, glasses, face shields, particulate respirators, powered respirators, single or multi-layered masks, ventilators, surgical suits, tops, aprons, scrubs, heavy-duty alcohol-based hand rubs/sanitisers, hand drying tissues, biohazard bags and fit-test kits are recommended by the WHO to safeguard the human being. A detailed study of the personal protective equipment for COVID-19 has been reported in this chapter. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.