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Friday, December 19, 2025
TopicAirborne transmission

Topic: Airborne transmission

First of its kind study in Lancet shows how indoor events can take place safely during pandemic

Researchers conducted a live concert in Spain with 465 people and safety measures like ventilation, antigen tests. None of the attendees tested positive for Covid, 8 days later.

How to reduce risk of indoor Covid transmission? MIT online app has some answers

According to study by MIT researchers, masks are more important in closed, poorly-ventilated rooms than social distancing to reduce transmission risk.

This mask could protect against Covid 25 times longer than cloth masks, researchers say

Touted as the 'more perfect mask’, PAPR devices have powered air-purifying respirators that filter out 98% of aerosols and could help people return to shared public spaces without fear of falling sick.

Holding your breath could increase risk of contracting Covid, IIT-Madras study finds

Study by IIT Madras researchers reveals that airborne viruses are more likely to deposit in lungs in those who have low breathing rate.

Vaccines can fight Covid but we still don’t know if they can stop transmission of virus

If a vaccine does not meaningfully reduce viral transmission, it leaves the unimmunized relatively vulnerable and has a better chance to keep mutating and evade our defenses.

Why US CDC is all confused about coronavirus being ‘airborne’ or not

Airborne transmission means different things to different people. If thrown at the public with no explanation, it might suggest, wrongly, that conversations across street are high risk.

On Camera

Why SIR is an exclusionary exercise for Persons with Disabilities

In the ongoing SIR 2.0 exercise, nearly half of the 90 lakh registered PwD voters in India were affected, showed an RTI application.

Antitrust watchdog Competition Commission to probe IndiGo flight disruptions

While the commission didn’t mention provisions under which IndiGo's market domination would be examined, Competition Act 2002 prohibits abuse of dominant position by any enterprise.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.