Tokyo – Under pressure from the scientific community, the World Health Organization recognized last week that airborne transmission of “droplets” as a possible third cause of COVID-19 infections. For many researchers in Japan, admission felt anticlimactic. This densely populated country has operated for months on the assumption that small “aerosolized” …
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The World Health Organization has reported another record of the increase in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in a 24-hour period, by more than 230,000. The previous world record was on Friday, with more than 228,000 new cases worldwide. According to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, which is based …
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Hello and welcome to Al Jazeera’s continued coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. I am Kate Mayberry in Kuala Lumpur. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been retested for coronavirus after showing symptoms of the disease, including fever. A group of more than 200 scientists urges the World Health Organization to recognize …
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There is a “real risk” that the coronavirus can be transmitted through the air, which means it can spread through microscopic particles that remain in the air, according to an open letter endorsed by 239 scientists. Scientists are urging the World Health Organization and other public health organizations to modify …
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One expert cautioned that relying on immunity to Covid-19 as a strategy to deal with the pandemic is not a “safe bet,” adding that mass immunity strategies “will probably never work.” Speaking to CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” on Monday, Danny Altmann, professor of immunology at Imperial College London, said that …
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