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Evidence emerging of airborne transmission of COVID-19

A group of scientists warn airborne transmission of Coronavirus is being under-considered

The World Health Organization has acknowledged "evidence emerging" of the airborne spread of coronavirus, after a group of scientists signed a letter urging the organization to update its guidance on the disease’s transmission. One of the signatories, Joe Allen, an Assistant Professor of Exposure Assessment Science at Harvard University in the US, explains his concerns to Rob Young.
Also in the programme, Deutsche Bank will pay a $150 million penalty to a New York regulator, mainly for failing to properly monitor its relationship with convicted child abuser Jeffrey Epstein, as Kadhim Shubber of the Financial Times explains.
And whilst official statistics suggest China's economy is rebounding from the country's coronavirus crisis earlier this year, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s Robin Brant visits a factory near China's eastern coast where the firm's American clients have disappeared, and the staff are barely hanging on.
Plus, over the last 30 years, more than half the world's coral reefs have died. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s Susannah Streeter explores the economic damage this has caused, and the efforts to revive the world’s endangered reefs.
And we’ll get the view on the day’s trading on Wall Street, from Joe Saluzzi of Themis Trading.
(Picture: A London underground train with people wearing masks. Picture credit: Getty Images)

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Tue 7 Jul 2020 22:32GMT

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