Health

Can the new coronavirus spread through the eye and conjunctiva? On March 14, local time, bioRxiv, a bioscience preprinted platform, published a new study on this topic titled “Rhesus macaques can be effectively infected with S 1 ARS-CoV-2 via ocular conjunctival route.”

Since last week, the famous American movie star Tom Hanks, who has been diagnosed with the new coronavirus pneumonia, has been receiving treatment in an Australian hospital.

People with blood type A are more likely to be infected with the new coronavirus, and the relative risk of blood type O is lower. This is the latest study on new coronaviruses jointly conducted by eight research institutes in China.

With the spread of coronavirus and growing fear, people have taken a lot of precautions to prevent infection. At the same time, many untrustworthy rumors have emerged, and WHO has busted them.

On March 16, the masks and testing reagents donated to Belgium and Italy by Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation have arrived at the Liege Airport eWTP (World Electronic Trading Platform) hub.

With China's mask production capacity rising sharply, future exports to other countries in need are also inevitable.

Jack Ma, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. co-founder, said on Twitter the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation will donate to each one of the 54 African nations 20,000 testing kits, 100,000 masks, and 1,000 medical use protective suits and face shields.

Actress Olga Kurylenko, who has starred in movies such as "007: The Great Breakdown of Quantum Crisis" and "Les Traducteurs," said today that her new coronavirus has tested positive and is currently in quarantine.

Microsoft has launched a global coronavirus tracker (COVID-19 Tracker) based on the search engine Bing to track changes in new coronavirus epidemics worldwide.

Outside the earth, the spread of virus will be significantly different than on the earth. With the worldwide spread of new coronaviruses, we might imagine what would happen if the virus spread to space?