WHO will soon announce new research advances in the spread of the new coronavirus

GENEVA, July 7 (Xinhua Liu Qu) World Health Organization experts said on the 7th, in response to recent reports of air-borne transmission of the new coronavirus, the organization believes that the current scientific research on the mode of transmission of the virus is still being updated, so it is open to the relevant research conclusions. WHO is currently compiling research progress on virus transmission, which will be published in the form of a briefing in the coming days.
6, 239 scientists sent an open letter to WHO asking it to revise its new guidelines for coronary epidemic prevention. They believe that the new coronavirus particles can be suspended in indoor air, inhaled by the human body and lead to infection, and called on the medical profession and relevant countries and international organizations to confirm the possibility of airborne transmission of the new coronavirus.
WHO said in its new coronary guidelines, updated in June, that to avoid infection or transmission of the virus, the public needs to maintain basic hand and respiratory hygiene, avoid touching mouth and nose and eat safely;
WHO's technical director for infection prevention and control, Benedetta Allegranzi, said at a press conference on the 7th that WHO experts had discussed and cooperated with some of these experts over the past few months and acknowledged that new scientific evidence was emerging in the field of the transmission of the virus. WHO is open to these evidence and possible changes in the results of research on the route of transmission of the virus and the preventive measures required. She also stressed that research on the new coronavirus transmission pathways is constantly new discoveries, some scientific evidence is also uncertain, do not rule out the possibility that the virus can be transmitted through the air in public places, especially in crowded and poorly ventilated places. She recommends taking as many precautions as possible in such places, including wearing masks.
Van Kelkhofer, technical director of WHO's Health Emergency Project, also said the organization's experts were compiling current research progress on the spread of the new coronavirus and would publish all known results in a briefing in the coming days. She also recommends taking comprehensive precautions regardless of the outcome, including keeping a social distance and wearing a mask in the right place.