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WHO busts COVID-19 myths
Updated On: 12 March, 2020 07:50 AM IST | Mumbai | Gaurav Sarkar
With the overdose of misinformation floating in cyberspace, 'COVID-19 quick links' tab on homepage of WHO website helps make important distinctions between fact and fiction
A BEST bus conductor wears a mask at work in Sion on Wednesday. According to WHO, only those ill with symptoms or caring for an affected person should wear a mask. Pic/Atul Kamble
The United Nations’s public health body, the World Health Organization (WHO), has launched a ‘COVID-19 quick links’ tab on its website’s homepage to help bust myths and provide FAQs around the outbreak. Here’s what you must keep in mind to maintain your physical, and mental, health.
Transmission through air unlikely
COVID-19 virus is mainly transmitted through contact with respiratory droplets expelled while coughing, rather than through air.
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