Italy reports 653 new deaths – as it happened
by Harry Taylor (now), Matthew Weaver, Sarah Marsh an from Science | The Guardian on (#5AJH6)
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Research shows that people with coronavirus are more likely to be highly infectious in the first week after symptoms appear.
A study, published in the Lancet Microbe, found that while genetic material of the Sars-Cov-2 virus was detected in samples from sufferers for several weeks afterwards, no live virus was found in any samples collected nine days after symptoms began.
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