Tanzania, July 12 -- Dar es Salaam. Over 200 scientists have written an open letter to the World Health Organization (WHO) pushing it to recognize evidence that the disease can be airborne.
The scientists say that Covid-19 can be transmitted through breathing out, talking and coughing and poked holes in WHO's assertion that aerosolised transmission is limited to hospital settings.
WHO says it is reconsidering emerging evidence indicating that Covid-19 can be transmitted through the air.
According to the WHO, this form of transmission is limited to aerosol generating procedures such as endotracheal intubation, bronchoscopy, open suctioning, administration of nebulised treatment.
Others are manual ventilation before intubation, turning th...