People in China must keep wearing face masks ‘for at least another year’ to fend off the killer bug, Beijing’s top coronavirus expert has warned. Zhang Boli, a medical specialist who was appointed by Beijing to supervise the country’s coronavirus response, asserted that wearing face coverings should become a norm for Chinese citizens even when … Read more
Hundreds of flights a week are bringing in tens of thousands of international passengers to Britain with no checks or mandatory quarantine upon landing whatsoever. Numerous accounts from travellers able to wander through the UK’s biggest airports without so much as a temperature check have been astounding Britons who are diligently following lockdown rules at … Read more
Just talking in a confined space could spread coronavirus, a new study suggests. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found that droplets of spit that can contain infectious particles of coronavirus can linger in the air for eight to 14 minutes after someone speaks. Especially concerning, even a person with no symptoms of … Read more
Just talking in a confined space could spread coronavirus, a new study suggests. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found that droplets of spit that can contain infectious particles of coronavirus can linger in the air for eight to 14 minutes after someone speaks. Especially concerning, even a person with no symptoms of … Read more
From vagina-sweetening pills to eating grapefruit to prevent heart disease, 2019 had its fair share of outrageous health claims. Ian Marber, a London-based nutritional therapist, has amassed thousands of fans for debunking several of them on his Twitter page. Now, in a piece for MailOnline, Mr Marber has revealed 16 of the strangest claims he … Read more
Cats with no COVID-19 symptoms can spread the deadly virus to other cats, new lab test shows, as experts warn owners ‘not to kiss your pets’ According to a new lab experiment, Cats can spread coronavirus to other felines without any of them exhibiting any symptoms Scientists who carried out the work say it shows … Read more
Scaly anteaters known as pangolins are NOT to blame for spreading coronavirus from bats to humans, study shows Experts mapped the genome of a coronavirus identified in Malayan pangolins They found it similar to both the virus behind COVID-19 and bat coronaviruses However, their analysis suggested that SARS-CoV-2 did not arise from this virus Here’s how to … Read more
Children are capable of transmitting the novel coronavirus, two new international studies claim. Over the course of the pandemic, fewer children compared to adults have fallen ill and, when they are infected, their symptoms are milder. But it’s been unclear if they can spread the virus to adults. Now, researchers in China and Germany say they … Read more
Britain quarantined just 273 out of 18.1million people who arrived in the UK in the three months before the coronavirus lockdown, damning new figures reveal today. The occupants of three flights from the outbreak ground zero in the Chinese city of Wuhan and another bringing home passengers from a cruise ship of Japan were the … Read more
Face masks will have some benefit in halting the spread of the coronavirus in post-lockdown Britain, Number 10‘s chief scientific adviser today said. Sir Patrick Vallance told MPs that masks could have a ‘marginal but positive’ impact on curbing transmission of the life-threatening infection. But ‘coverings of some sort might do’, he said in front of … Read more