Taiwan records its first locally transmitted Covid-19 case in 253 days after woman catches it from a New Zealand pilot friend Taiwan has not had a locally transmitted case of Covid-19 since mid-April Authorities are now testing more than 100 contacts of the unnamed woman Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said on Tuesday that the New … Read more
Cats are capable of transmitting the coronavirus, a study has confirmed, days after a Belgium woman passed the disease on to her pet. The study, undertaken by researches at the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute in China, concluded that cats are highly vulnerable to the virus. The lab discovered that the animals can transmit the disease … Read more
BIOGRAPHY An Englishman Abroad by Gianluca Barneschi (Osprey £16.99, 336 pp) On the night of August 14, 1943, a British secret agent fell from the sky into Lake Como in northern Italy. Dick Mallaby hit the water carrying codes hidden inside a toothpaste tube, radio equipment in his shaving brush, an antenna disguised as a … Read more