shell out for Daily Star's newsletter. It's FREE! Sign up today for the biggest and brightest stories sent straight to your inbox While controversy rages about the wisdom of wearing face coverings in public, Professor Wendy Barclay of Imperial College London has warned that coronavirus droplets breathed out by Covid-19 carriers can loiter in the air for over an hour.
Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show Professor Barclay, who is an advisor on the government's SAGE panel, said that it was increasingly certain that the virus was airborne, and not just spreading though contact.Describing how the virus lingered in microscopic droplets breathed out by people infected with the virus she said: “We do know that...