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.
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.
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.
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.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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