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PARIS (AFP) Face masks reduce the risk of spreading large Covid-linked droplets when speaking or coughing by up to 99.9%, according to a lab experiment with mechanical mannequins and human subjects, researchers said Wednesday.
A woman standing 2 yards from a coughing man without a mask will be exposed to 10,000 times more such droplets than if he were wearing one, even if he is only less than 2 feet away, they reported in the journal Royal Society Open Science.
Published December 23, 2020 9:38pm Face masks reduce the risk of spreading large Covid-linked droplets when speaking or coughing by up to 99.9 percent, according to a lab experiment with mechanical mannequins and human subjects, researchers said Wednesday. A woman standing two metres (yards) from a coughing man without a mask will be exposed to 10,000 times more such droplets than if he were wearing one, even if he is only 50 centimetres away, they reported in the journal Royal Society Open Science. There is no more doubt whatsoever that face masks can dramatically reduce the dispersion of potentially virus-laden droplets, senior author Ignazio Maria Viola, an expert in applied fluid dynamics at the University of Edinburgh s School of Engineering, told AFP.
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The director of the Ichilov Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Ronni Gamzu, formerly the country’s coronavirus czar, says his hospital will begin vaccinating the general population against COVID-19 from Sunday, according to the Ynet news site.
Israel is currently only vaccinating those over 60.
Gamzu says the hospital aims to inoculate 4,000 people a day against the virus. Registration will open on the hospital website on Thursday, he says. I m proud to work at The Times of Israel
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Some Likud lawmakers are calling for party primaries to shake up Benjamin Netanyahu’s party slate ahead of the March elections, following the defection of several Likud members to Gideon Sa’ar’s new party, New Hope.
MKs Nir Barkat, Eli Cohen and Shlomo Karhi, express support for the move in interviews with Army Radio. Karhi says the internal vote is needed to “restore the trust of its voters,” while Cohen says a final decision will be made next week.
Sa’ar quit Likud earlier this month to form New Hope and challenge Netanyahu from the right in the upcoming vote. He was joined by Likud MKs Michal Shir and Sharren Haskel.