Hi Welcome You can highlight texts in any article and it becomes audio news that you can hear
  • Fri. Nov 22nd, 2024

WHO: Airborne infection transmission can’t be dismissed

Byindianadmin

Jul 8, 2020
WHO: Airborne infection transmission can’t be dismissed

A woman sits in a bench while walking her dogs in Mexico City Image copyright
AFP

Image caption

Researchers have actually implicated the WHO of ignoring the possibility of air-borne transmission.

The World Health Organization has acknowledged there is emerging proof that the coronavirus can be spread by tiny particles suspended in the air.

The air-borne transmission might not be dismissed in crowded, closed or inadequately ventilated settings, an official stated.

If the proof is confirmed, it may affect guidelines for indoor areas.

An open letter from more than 200 researchers had accused the WHO of ignoring the possibility of airborne transmission.

The WHO has so far stated that the infection is transferred through beads when individuals cough or sneeze.

” We wanted them to acknowledge the evidence,” Jose Jimenez, a chemist at the University of Colorado who signed the paper, told the Reuters news agency.

” This is definitely not an attack on the WHO. It’s a scientific debate, however we felt we required to go public beca

Find Out More

Click to listen highlighted text!