Coronavirus is airborne, scientists warn WHO

More than 200 sci-entists from 32 nations have written to the WHO, saying there is evidence that the coronavirus is airborne and even smaller particles can infect peo-ple, a significant depar-ture from the UN health agency's claims so far that COVID-19 is spread primarily through coughs and sneezes.

A report in The New York Times says that clusters of infections are rising globally as people go back to bars, restau-rants, offices, markets and casinos, a trend that increasingly confirms that the virus lingers in the air indoors, infecting those nearby.

The World Health Or-ganization (WHO) has long held that the coin-navirus is spread primar-ily by large respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes. In its latest update dated June 29 on the coronavirus, the WHO said airborne transmission of the virus was passible only after medical proce-dures that produce aero-sols, or droplets smaller than 5 microns. Ultraviolet lights may be needed to kill viral particles floating in tiny droplets indoors, it said.


TV BRICS reports with reference to Trinity Mirror.