BREAKING : WHO considers 'airborne precautions' after study shows coronavirus can survive in air

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The World Health Organization is considering "airborne precautions" for medical staff after a new study showed the coronavirus can survive in the air in some settings.

"As you know this is a virus that's transmitted through droplets, so these are little pieces of liquid," Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHO's emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, told reporters during a virtual press conference on Monday. "When you do an aerosol-generating procedure like in a medical care facility, you have the possibility to what we call aerosolize these particles, which means they can stay in the air a little bit longer."

She added: "it's very important that healthcare workers take additional precautions when they're working on patients and doing those procedures."

World health officials say the respiratory disease spreads through human-to-human contact, droplets carried through sneezing and coughing and germs left on inanimate objects. The coronavirus can go airborne, staying suspended in the air depending on factors such as heat and humidity, they said.

Kerkhove said health officials are aware of several studies in a number of countries looking at the different environmental conditions that COVID-19 can persist. "Looking at maybe different humidity or different temperature, UV light and that have looked at different surfaces, such as steel," she said.

Health officials use the information to make sure WHO's guidance is appropriate, and "so far, ... we are confident that the guidance that we have is appropriate," she added.

"In health care facilities, we make sure health care workers use standard droplet precautions with the exception... that they're doing an aerosol-generating procedure," she said.

Health officials recommend so-called N95 masks by medical professionals because they filter out about 95% of all liquid or airborne particles.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there's been a rapid escalation of COVID-19 cases over the past week, adding, "we have not seen an urgent enough escalation in testing, isolation and contact tracing, which is the backbone of the response."

"We have a simple message for all countries: test, test, test. Test every suspected case, if they test positive, isolate them and find out who they have been in contact with two days before they developed symptoms and test those people, too", Tedros said.

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