The World Health Company on Tuesday acknowledged “evidence emerging” of the air-borne spread of the novel coronavirus, after a group of researchers urged the international body to update its guidance on how the breathing disease passes between people.
” We have actually been speaking about the possibility of air-borne transmission and aerosol transmission as one of the modes of transmission of COVID-19,” Maria Van Kerkhove, technical lead on the COVID-19 pandemic at the WHO, told a news rundown.
The WHO has previously stated the virus that triggers the COVID-19 respiratory illness spreads out primarily through little beads expelled from the nose and mouth of a contaminated individual that rapidly sink to the ground.
But in an open letter to the Geneva-based agency, released on Monday in the Medical Contagious Diseases journal, 239 scientists in 32 countries laid out proof that they say shows drifting virus particles can contaminate individuals who breathe them in.
Because those smaller exhaled particles