During pandemic situations like Covid-19 commonly known as novel corona virus, since disease is wide spreading across globe and affecting the world dangerously, it becomes crucial to implement few rules to minimize the risk. The vaccinations are just a preventive method but following certain protection methods becomes critical. People need to follow many protection methods in this situation to reduce virus spread. One such major protection method is wearing facial mask in public places. In addition to this, public service providers have to mandate people to use the facilities only when they properly wear facial mask. In the countries which are highly populated, it becomes a challenge to monitor everyone to see if they are following the rules such as wearing facial mask when being around other people. This paper is literature survey on face mask detection to avoid spread of virus infection using image analysis technique.

Keywords : Facial Mask; Corona Virus 19; Image Analysis; Disease Prediction; Online Consultation; Pandemic (Novel Corona Virus)