The United Nation’s aviation agency has published a series of health recommendations for the pandemic-hit airline industry as it relaunches air travel. The International Civil Aviation Organization guidelines include mask wearing, temperature controls and disinfection of aircraft. The ICAO does not advocate leaving every other seat open to assure physical distancing, a restriction that the…
Canada’s cyber spy agency says authorities are investigating possible security breaches at Canadian organizations doing COVID-19-related research — less than a week after it warned that Canadian intellectual property linked to the pandemic is a “valuable target” for state-sponsored actors.The CSE has warned that sophisticated threat actors could target Canadian medical research labs working on…
A Pentagon agency is working to produce an antibody treatment to combat the novel coronavirus until a vaccine is ready.The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a research and funding branch of the Defense Department known for its out-of-the-box innovations, aims to “make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security.” Its inventions include the internet, Siri,…
Federal health regulators are expected to push the nursing-home industry to inform residents, their families and staff quickly when facilities confirm Covid-19 cases, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services could announce the move as early as this week, the people said. It isn’t clear…
