Health

Dan Arnold works for UV Technology, a company that provides disinfection equipment to hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and food manufacturers across the UK.

Following the discovery of two positive tests for pet dogs, a new case of pet cat test positive for coronavirus has appeared in Hong Kong.

Bats are carriers of natural viruses. Why do they carry a large number of viruses without being harmed? Can humans seek a universal idea against multiple viruses from here?

Will coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) be transmitted through the air? Has WHO revised relevant protection guidelines based on recent academic research on aerosol transmission? the answer is negative.

As the new coronavirus pandemic continues to rag across the globe, older people still face the greatest risk of death, but they are far from the only ones who are vulnerable.

The Dalian Institute of Chemical Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences said recently that it has successfully developed a catalytic material that can absorb and inactivate the new coronavirus.

The outbreak of the new coronavirus has triggered people's snapping up of related website domain names, such as coronavirus.com, and aroused investors' desire to profit from the latest global health crisis.

China's production of prevention and control materials against the new coronavirus has grown strongly, with medical protective clothing achieving a daily production capacity increase of more than 40 times in just two months, Xin Guobin, deputy minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said today.

As for the debate over which soap and alcohol have better disinfecting ability, Xu Xiaoyuan, chief physician of the Department of Infectious Diseases of Peking University First Hospital, said that soap belongs to detergents and alcohol belongs to disinfectants, which is not a concept and cannot be confused.

Scientists at the National University Hospital of Singapore assessed whether the coronavirus can be transmitted through tears and found that such risks of transmission are low.