Is the handshake dead? Public health 専門家s say Britain's 伝統的な 迎える／歓迎するing may have 'gone forever' because of Covid-19 ― and could be 取って代わるd by a 'Japanese approach' of 屈服するing

  • Microbiologist Baron Peter Piot said individual behaviour needs to change in UK
  • He said wearing 直面する masks and social distancing could become the norm?
  • （人命などを）奪う，主張するd 証拠 from Australia 設立する 対策 stopped spread other illnesses

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Shaking 手渡すs may become a thing of the past because of Covid-19, public health 専門家s have said.?

And the UK should 取って代わる the 伝統的な 迎える／歓迎するing with 屈服するing, によれば one scientist who argued Britain needs a more 'Japanese approach'.??

Professor Dame Anne Johnson, 副／悪徳行為 大統領，／社長 of the 学院 of 医療の Science, said a cultural 転換 was needed to stop a second wave and?called for より小数の 手渡す shakes and いっそう少なく kissing.

Professor Peter Piot, a microbiologist at the London School of Hygiene and 熱帯の 薬／医学, 追加するd: 'Shaking 手渡すs is probably out forever.'????

Shaking hands is 'probably out forever' according to public health experts and the UK could be set to adopt the Japanese-style greeting of bowing. Stock picture

Shaking 手渡すs is 'probably out forever' によれば public health 専門家s and the UK could be 始める，決める to 可決する・採択する the Japanese-style 迎える／歓迎するing of 屈服するing. 在庫／株 picture

Professor Dame Anne Johnson, vice president of the Academy of Medical Science, said a 'more of the Japanese approach' will be how to prevent a second wave of the virus. Pictured: Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe greets Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike

Professor Dame Anne Johnson, 副／悪徳行為 大統領，／社長 of the 学院 of 医療の Science, said a 'more of the Japanese approach' will be how to 妨げる a second wave of the ウイルス. Pictured: Japan's 総理大臣 Shinzo Abe 迎える／歓迎するs Tokyo 知事 Yuriko Koike

Boris Johnson and his partner Carrie Symonds speak with heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua at the 連邦／共和国 Service at Westminster Abbey on 連邦／共和国 Day on March 9

WHY DO SCIENTISTS ADVISE AGAINST HANDSHAKES??

Scientists believe that one of the most ありふれた ways to 送信する／伝染させる coronavirus is through 選ぶing up the ウイルス from 汚染するd surfaces and then touching the 直面する.???

Mobeen Rathore, 長，指導者 of paediatric 感染性の 病気s and immunology at Wolfson Children's Hospital of Jacksonville, Florida, told the Huffington 地位，任命する?that 研究員s are still 自信のない how long the ウイルス can last on 肌.?

He said: 'This ウイルス is only a few months old and we don't know as much about it as people いつかs make it sound. What we do know is it stays on hard surfaces, likes 反対する-最高の，を越すs, for two to three days. '

On the topic of how long the ウイルス can 生き残る on 肌, Dr Rathore 追加するd: 'It's fair to say it stays long enough to spread from person to person'.??

He 追加するd: 'The most ありふれた 機械装置 for 伝達／伝染 is 関係のある to 手渡すs, because we’re using them all the time, 絶えず touching things, and we aren’t even aware of it. Then we touch our 直面するs all the time without even thinking about it.'???

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The two 専門家s appeared in 前線 of the House of Lords' Science and 科学（工学）技術 select 委員会 yesterday.???

Professor Piot said that individual behaviour needs to change ーするために 戦闘 coronavirus and the 可能性 of other 疫病／流行性のs.?

During the discussion on Covid-19 with peers, he said: 'Using 直面する masks when you have a ありふれた 冷淡な should be the norm.'

He also （人命などを）奪う，主張するd there was 証拠 from Australia to show that Covid-19 予防 対策 were also stopping the spread of other illnesses.?

Professor Piot also said the origin of not shaking 手渡すs in some cultures 'may have been 決定するd by the need to 避ける 疫病／流行性のs', The Telegraph 報告（する）／憶測s.

He did not 指名する the countries he was referring to ― but Japan is one country that is famed for eschewing 手渡す shakes in favour of 屈服するing.?

It's 不明瞭な where the Japanese tradition of 屈服するing in 迎える／歓迎するing 起こる／始まるd from ― but historians believe it can be traced 支援する to the 5th century.?

In the same 要点説明, Dame Anne said: 'It's really important to 抑える the ウイルス as much as we can.

'If you've got a 冷淡な or flu stay home, stay out the way. いっそう少なく shaking of 手渡すs, kissing and more of the Japanese approach.'?

Professor Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, 大統領，／社長 of the 王室の Society, said 予防 対策 would only be necessary until a 治療 is proven to work.???

The comments on 手渡す shakes come after it was 明らかにする／漏らすd 主要な 科学の 助言者s 勧めるd the gove rnment to tell people to stop shaking 手渡すs on March 3.

But it was the same day Boris Johnson 誇るd about shaking 手渡すs with 'everybody' ― 20 days before he 発表するd the UK's lockdown.??

A 会合 of the behavioural group that 料金d into SAGE on March 3 結論するd that '政府 should advise against greetings such as shaking 手渡すs and hugging'.?

'A public message against shaking 手渡すs has 付加 value as a signal about the importance of 手渡す hygiene,' the 専門家s said.?

'促進するing a 交替／補充 迎える／歓迎するing or encouraging others to politely 拒絶する／低下する a proffered 手渡す-shake may have 利益.'?

However, that evening Mr Johnson told a 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 in 負かす／撃墜するing Street that he 'continued to shake 手渡すs' and the important thing was washing them.???

He said: 'I was at a hospital the other night where I think there were a few coronavirus 患者s and I shook 手渡すs with everybody, you will be pleased to know, and I continue to shake 手渡すs.?

'People 明白に can （不足などを）補う their own minds but I think the 科学の 証拠 is… our 裁判／判断 is that washing your 手渡すs is the 決定的な thing.'?

Over その後の days Mr Johnson was seen shaking 手渡すs with celebrities and 高官s.???

IS A SECOND WAVE INEVITABLE??

Almost all scientists agree the 感染 is bound to re-現れる in a second wave in the absence of a ワクチン or cure for the coronavirus.?

Dr Andrea Am mon, the EU's boss on 病気 支配（する）／統制する, has 警告するd the ウイルス is not going away any time soon because it is 'very 井戸／弁護士席 adapted to humans'.

She has 勧めるd Europe to 準備する for another 危機, which she said was 必然的な because so few people will have developed COVID-19 免疫.?

In an interview with The 後見人?on May 21 she said: 'The question is when and how big, that is the question in my 見解（をとる）.'

Dr Hans Kluge, director for the 世界保健機構 European 地域, said he was 'very 関心d' a 殺到する in 感染s would 同時に起こる／一致する with other seasonal 病気s such as the flu.??

Speaking 排他的に to The Telegraph?in 中央の-May,?he 警告を与えるd that now is the time for '準備, not 祝賀' across Europe - even if countries are show 肯定的な 調印するs of 回復.

Professor Hugh Pennington, an emeritus microbiologist at University of Aberdeen, has said there is no 証拠 there will be a second wave of the coronavirus, contradictory to the thoughts of others.

Scientists have 繰り返して referred to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic as a 調印する the world is 長，率いるing に向かって a 破滅的な relapse in 事例／患者s. But the flu is biologically 完全に different from the coronavirus?and should not be 類似の, Professor Pennington said.

But he 追加するd: 'If we get the 緩和 of lockdown wrong, far more likely would be a 延長／続編 of 感染s, many in the form of localised 突発／発生s, but not waves or 頂点（に達する）s.'

令状ing in The Daily Telegraph , he said Covid-19 tends to 原因（となる） clusters of 事例／患者s, which bodes 井戸／弁護士席 for the 未来.?

Professor 示す Woolhouse, of Edinburgh University, said it is more likely the UK will experience small 突発／発生s because the R 率 of the coronavirus has been squased.

At its 頂点（に達する）, the reproduction ? or R ? R number was between two and three, which meant every 感染させるd person passed the ウイルス on to two or three others. It is now between 0.7 and 0.9, putting it below the 決定的な level of one, which is when 事例／患者s spiral out of 支配（する）／統制する.

Professor Woolhouse, who is part of the 政府's 科学の （a）忠告の／（n）警報 Group for 緊急s (下落する), told The i: 'Am I 関心d that the R number might creep above one? Yes I am. But am I 関心d it will go 支援する to where we were at the beginning of the first wave, no I’m not.

'There is no prospect どれでも that it’s going to go up to two or three again that’s far, far from the reality of what we might reasonably 推定する／予想する. I’m not so much 関心d about a second wave, I’m 関心d about a second bump.

'The only way that a second wave could happen is if there were a 完全にする 崩壊（する） in lockdown and everybody just gave up o n it にもかかわらず what the 政府 said ? and that’s just not going to happen.'

The R number has been guiding 政府 on when to 解除する lockdown. But the K number will become 決定的な for fighting a 可能性のある second wave, scientists believe. The K number 跡をつけるs the extent to which new 突発／発生s are 原因（となる）d by a few 'superspreading events'.???

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