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FILE PHOTO: Fake blood is seen in test tubes labelled with the coronavirus in this illustration taken March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationHundreds of scientists say there is evidence that the novel coronavirus in smaller particles in the air can infect people and they are calling for the World Health Organization to revise its recommendations, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
India has seen eight times the number of cases as China, which has a similar-sized population and is where the virus originated late last year. The decision marks the first time the border between Victoria and New South Wales has been shut in 100 years. Officials last blocked movement between the two states in 1919 during the Spanish flu pandemic. Victoria’s only other internal border, with South Australia state, is already closed.
The U.N. agency said the decision, taken on the recommendation of the trial’s international steering committee, does not affect other studies where those drugs are used for non-hospitalised patients or as a prophylaxis.Soccer-mad Argentines in the farmbelt city of Pergamino have devised a clever way to keep playing while avoiding risk of spreading COVID-19: a human foosball pitch with zones for each player to avoid physical contact.
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