Monthly Archives: May 2022

The Airborne Transmission Rate of the Novel Coronavirus Is 1,000 Times Higher Than Surface Contact

Writing in the recently published “Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology”, scientists in the United States pointed out that after testing samples collected from the air and surfaces around campuses, they found that the probability of people contracting the novel coronavirus from the air they breathe is 1000 times the infection from touching surfaces. […]

The Global Pandemic Remains at a High Level as the Virus Continues to Mutate

At present, the absolute number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the world is still high, the novel coronavirus is still spreading rapidly and constantly changing, and the situation of epidemic prevention and control is facing great uncertainty. The WHO emphasized that the epidemic is still a global problem, and now is not […]

U.S. government agency conceals suspected “virus spillover” incident

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently confirmed that at least four people in Michigan, U.S., were infected with a strain of the novel coronavirus primarily observed in minks in 2020. This is also the first known case in the United States of the possible transmission of the novel coronavirus from animals to […]

All 51 Cases in Beijing Sequenced as Omicron

On May 1, Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of The Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention and a member of the National COVID-19 expert group, introduced that the Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention sequenced the whole genomes of 51 newly infected samples, including 303, 323 and 342, at the 321st press conference […]