A yellow face with closed eyes wearing a white surgical mask, as used by health workers in hospitals. Also worn in East Asian cultures to avoid sickness or spreading airborne diseases.

Windows 8.1 depicted a ridged dust mask, as used by construction workers, changed to a medical mask in Windows 10.

Face With Medical Mask was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.