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Everyone should wear face masks inside their own home if family members have Covid symptoms or test positive, European health chiefs have said.
People in the same household as someone who has tested positive or has a fever, cough or loss of taste and smell have been advised to wear masks inside their homes by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
Both the person who is sick and everyone else who lives with them should wear a mask or face covering as much as possible, the ECDC said.
The EU agency released a technical report looking into how useful face masks are in preventing the spread of coronavirus.
A man, 51, had to go to hospital in Hong Kong after he scratched his eye while taking off his face mask during his lunch break at work. He scraped his eye after flipping the mask while pulling it off.
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Is it possible to change a chicken s sex before it hatches? Zoë Corbyn
The eggs we eat have a hidden cost. About 7bn male chicks are killed worldwide every year to produce them. Farmers need to replenish their supply of egg-laying hens but, by nature, half the chicks that hatch are male and growing them for meat is uneconomic – that industry uses faster growing breeds. In many countries they are tossed into shredding machines, although in the UK they are gassed.
But what if those male chicks could instead hatch out as functional females, able to grow into egg-laying birds? That’s the vision of Israeli startup Soos Technology. Founded in 2017, the company, which has received $3.3m in investment and prize winnings, wants to make commercial hatcheries kinder and more economic by changing the effective sex of poultry embryos as they develop.