Americans testing positive for COVID-19 will no longer be told to stay home for five days under new rules proposed by the Center for Disease Control, local media has reported. While isolation is no longer a legal requirement, Australians who test positive for COVID-19 should also avoid "high-risk settings" like hospitals and care facilities for at least seven days "or …
Masks will be coming off indoors today across much of the east coast, while a mask mandate has been extended in Western Australia. Australian Capital Territory From today, masks will no longer be mandatory in most indoor settings in the ACT, but will still be required on public transport, and in hospitals and aged-care facilities. While NSW has scrapped mask …
FotografiaBasica via Getty Images More and more places are dropping their COVID mask mandates. “There is no question that it is more effective for both the individual and for public health for a high fraction of people to wear good masks when they are in shared air spaces indoors,” said Alex Huffman, an aerosol scientist at the University of Denver. …
Care home residents will be banned from seeing more than three named visitors in an attempt to protect them from the Omicron variant. Omicron 'tsunami' is about to hit UK: Super-mutant cases jump 54% in a day and EVERY Covid case in Scotland is predicted to be variant within 10 days - as overall infections start to spike north of …
There are some COVID rules we have all learned by now — or so we think. Infection risk depends on a number of factors One main transmission pathway is the spread of coronavirus particles through aerosols and droplets. The Max Planck Institute for Chemistry has a calculator that lets you adjust a number of parameters to determine the COVID risk …
As authorities in some states declare coronavirus to have been "virtually eliminated", control efforts have switched focus to bolstering one of the remaining frontlines: hotel quarantine. The state's Chief Public Health Officer, Professor Nicola Spurrier, has said that authorities would not be able to "definitively" prove when transmission occurred, but that the theory gives them important information moving forward. "Of …
