Tag: transmission
Hong Kong: coronavirus transmission linked to quarantine hotel door hooks used for meal deliveries
Hong Kong’s first community infection of a mutant Covid-19 strain involved the South African variant, officials revealed on Tuesday, with transmission likely to have taken place at a quarantine hotel via door hooks used by staff to deliver meal boxes to guests. More...
UK: Cases of B.1.617 Delta “double mutant” coronavirus variant double in one week to 160
Professor Paul Hunter, an epidemiologist at the University of East Anglia, analysed publicly available information on new variant numbers last Saturday and again yesterday and found that the number of genetically-confirmed Indian strain cases had risen in a week from 79 to 160. More...
Overwhelming evidence that indoor airborne transmission associated with relatively small, micron-scale aerosol droplets plays a dominant role in the spread of coronavirus, especially for so-called “superspreading events”
“There is now overwhelming evidence that indoor airborne transmission associated with relatively small, micron-scale aerosol droplets plays a dominant role in the spread of COVID-19, especially for so-called “superspreading events”, which invariably occur indoors.” More...
The Lancet: “There is consistent, strong evidence that SARS-CoV-2 spreads by airborne transmission”
The Lancet: “There is consistent, strong evidence that SARS-CoV-2 spreads by airborne transmission. More...
BMJ on coronavirus: “It is now clear that SARS-CoV-2 transmits mostly between people at close range through inhalation”
BMJ: “It is now clear that SARS-CoV-2 transmits mostly between people at close range through inhalation. More...
Uruguay: over 1,000 daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases per million people
Uruguay registered Thursday out 4,412 new cases of coronavirus of on a total of 18,835 tests, reported the National Emergency System (Sinae). More...
Ireland: Shops most commonly visited places listed by people later infected with coronavirus
The first comprehensive study of community transmission of Covid-19 in Ireland has identified shops as the most likely source of infection. More...
Sweden’s daily coronavirus case rate far higher than Brazil or India
The spread of infection in Sweden on Friday was 625 new confirmed infections per day per one million inhabitants and the spread has increased since April 2 when it was 469 per one million inhabitants. More...
50 people ordered to leave housing block in Hong Kong after pipes at infected woman’s flat suspected of transmitting coronavirus to families below
Health authorities on Friday partially evacuated a public housing block in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, after four residents tested positive for Covid-19, and an expert determined that the virus likely was transmitted via the building’s pipes. More...
UK: Primary school children have highest coronavirus infection level
Primary school children aged 5-12 are now the group with the highest COVID infection level in the UK, at 0.41%. More...