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Reuters has posted this interesting video report on the potential for the spread of coronavirus during the demonstrations against the police killing of George Floyd in the US.
In particular, one expert warns, the collapse of trust in the authorities is likely to have an impact on contact tracing. After all, when someone from the government calls you up to ask you who you went to the demo with, are you going to tell them?
‘COVID could be part of these demonstrations’: Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center warned that protests may add to virus spread https://t.co/m3Cb6TOxaN pic.twitter.com/0X91nB8bPC
There have now been more than 6.3 million confirmed cases of coronavirus across the world since the outbreak was first detected in China at the end of 2019, according to the tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.
The US-based university said that countries had reported a total of 6,318,040 cases of the virus on Tuesday, of which 376,885 had led to deaths.
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