they ignore me because they don t have the chance to live with people with disabilities. natsuko says all she really wants us to be given the same rights and be treated the same way as any other mum. for that, she says japan still has some way to go. the legendary pop group abba have announced their first studio album for a0 years. abba voyage will be released in november. the quartet split up in 1982 but they re now preparing for a tour with a difference as our arts correspondent david sillito reports. # i still have faith in you # i see it now abba, and a new song. indeed, a new album.
were encouraged to wear masks in a range of different ways. the other group wasn t. here s dr stephen luby, one of the authors of the study and a professor of infectious diseases at stanford university. at the very beginning the groups were identical in every way that we could measure. but during the course of this study, those who were reanalysed and encouraged to wear a mask are much more likely to wear a mask. so 13% in our nonintervention group and a2% in the group that got the masks. and then that group in turn got less covid, they got 9% less covid infections thanif got 9% less covid infections than if they were in the next
group. so this was a real world evaluation. we were trying to work with people to say, can we encourage them to where their masks more? you could argue, we were fairly effective, going from 13% to a2%. had we pushed this higher, we have no doubt that we would have had an even bigger impact on covid i9. and importantly, that 9% is an overall estimate. if you look at people who got these surgical masks, they went down by 12% and if you look at people who got surgical masks over the age of 50, they got 35% less covid i9. so there is no question that the masks were effective. i think this really strengthens the argument that we have strong evidence, because prior to this, there was some concern that the evidence on a population level was entirely descriptive, or observational. that is, that people who wore masks clearly had less covid, but people were
for that, she says japan still has some way to go. the legendary pop group abba have announced their first studio album for a0 years. abba voyage will be released in november. the quartet split up in 1982, but they re now preparing for a tour with a difference, as our arts correspondent david sillito reports. # i still have faith in you # i see it now abba and a new song. indeed, a new album. a0 yea rs a0 years on, benny and bjorn were in london to show some good news. one of pop s greatest acts was back.
in the olympic park is because this is where the abba concerts are going to be taking place but you won t be seeing abba as they are today, but rather with a degree of digital youthful enhancement. the group has been performing in a studio, and with the aid of motion capture digital effects, the image we will see and hear on the stage will be the band members in their 70s heyday. to create, after the musicals and movies, another abba experience. but what makes this moment different is the new music. the new album. the reunion, a0 years on. david sillito, bbc news. fantastic group, aren t they? i would love to know what your favourite abba song is. tweet me at @bbckarishma. perhaps you can guess mind. there was some