Google and Apple's contact-tracing app diktat is a troubling display of power: Although it's a positive that Google and Apple have people's privacy in mind with these limitations, their decision raises alarming questions about how unaccountable Silicon Valley firms have power over public health decisions.

A second COVID-19 wave could be avoided if social distancing and the use of face masks are maintained: study: Individual behavior will have a significant effect on preventing a large second wave of COVID-19 infections. In fact, maintaining social distancing and other interventions such as the use of face masks and hand hygiene could remove the need for future lockdowns

INTAKE: dados de mobilidade ao serviço da melhoria dos modelos epidemiológicos: Geramos dados a um ritmo alucinante e automático, e o simples facto de sermos inseparáveis do nosso telemóvel traduz-se em informação que, em contexto de pandemia, pode ser fulcral na previsão do risco de contágio. Numa altura em que travamos uma autêntica guerra contra um inimigo invisível, temos na manga esta arma secreta que pode ser tão diferenciadora na estratégia de combate. Tendo todo este potencial bem presente, a equipa do projeto INTAKE – INtegrating mobility daTa into spAtial risK modEls pretende através da integração dos dados de mobilidade individual fornecidos por uma operadora de telecomunicações ajudar a melhorar modelos epidemiológicos que já existem e que permitem prever o risco de contágio em cada região do país.

Coronavirus traces found in March 2019 sewage sample, Spanish study shows: Spanish virologists have found traces of the novel coronavirus in a sample of Barcelona waste water collected in March 2019, nine months before the COVID-19 disease was identified in China, the University of Barcelona said

How to Clean a Cloth Protective Mask 2020: First things first: All of the doctors we spoke to agreed that you should wash your mask daily.

A fraction of regions account for a majority of deaths: Data from 20 European countries shows that over 200,000 more people than usual have died since March.

Coronavirus: The secret spreaders of Covid-19 fuelling the pandemic in the Middle East: Fears are growing that an underground network of mercenaries is transporting the deadly coronavirus into some of the region’s most war-wrecked countries.