The World Health Organization has officially acknowledged the new evidence that coronavirus also spreads through the air, contrary to what was previously suggested, where it was said to spread through the airways.
A day after a group of 239 scientists published a public letter urging the WHO to change guidelines for Covid-19, a senior official said there was "evidence" that coronavirus was also transmitted through the air, but they were not. final.
Speaking at a conference in Geneva, Benedetta Allegranzi, WHO's technical director for infection prevention and control, said : with people and unmarried. ”
"However, the evidence must be collected and interpreted, and we support that," she added.
In a paper published in the Oxford University Press, 239 scientists argued that there was a high risk that Covid-19 would be an airborne disease - meaning that it could be transmitted from one individual to another through microscopic particles in the air. For more details, click here .
