Health minister: No consensus on whether or not Covid-19 is airborne
Wednesday, 12 Feb 2020 10:13 PM MYT
Health Minister Datuk Seri Dzulkefly Ahmad said to date, most of the medical experts stated that liquid droplet was identified as the virus mode of transmission with regards to human-to-human infection. Yesterday, the World Health Organisation director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus explained that co stands for “corona”, vi and d .
Recently, the media reported an expert in China was of the opinion that the virus could spread through the air while a group of international medical experts agreed on diarrhoea as the second agent that could transmit the virus. “Coronavirus patients who died had other diseases such as heart disease and kidney failure, not because the coronavirus is vicious or horrific,” he said.
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