Il cloro è l’agente chimico più utilizzato per la disinfezione dell’acqua potabile da microrganismi dannosi. La trasformazione del cloro in ipoclorito di sodio, sostanza dal grande potere disinfettante, e il suo utilizzo a questo fine, rappresentò, agli inizi del secolo scorso, una spinta al miglioramento qualitativo dell’acqua e al problema dell’approvvigionamento idrico, contribuendo
Britain is poised to shutter individual towns in the event of a rise in confirmed cases. And the government has already locked down the English town of Leicester, where textile factories may be behind an alarming jump in infections, just as the rest of the country celebrated the easing of restrictions. Serbia reimposed
Umar Kamani, son of Boohoo founder Mahmud Kamani and founder of PrettyLittleThing, with Sofia Richie at the Boohoo x Taylor Hill Tea Party at The Beverly Hills Hotel on October . P Fast fashion retailer Boohoo BOO.L has announced an independent investigation into its supply chain, following allegations of illegal and unsafe working
RIO DE JANEIRO — President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, who has railed against social distancing measures and repeatedly downplayed the threat of the coronavirus as the epidemic in his country became the second-worst in the world, said Tuesday that he, too, had been infected. Critics at home and abroad have called Bolsonaro’s handling
Niall Carson Health Minister Stephen Donnelly launches the official Irish health service executive Covid Tracker contact tracing app at the Department of Health in Dublin Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said the new Covid- tracker app has “privacy at its core” as he appealed to people to download it. The app informs you if
In announcing the measures Tuesday, Daniel Andrews, the state premier, said a sense of complacency that had set in after most social-distancing rules were lifted in June was partly responsible for the jump in new infections. Victoria as recently as last month had reported daily new cases in the single digits, but on
AbstractMental disorders (MD) are commonly comorbid with cardiovascular, metabolic, and some infectious diseases. Since the current SARS-CoV-2 epidemic is affecting the most multimorbid individuals, we might expect that the epidemic will be particularly problematic for people with MD. Understanding the burden of an outbreak on mental health is fundamental to effective action towards
Casi di cronaca recenti, aventi come argomento i contagi di legionella, hanno occupato una buona parte degli spazi informativi locali, sia per le notizie in sé sia per i climi di incertezza e paura che accompagnano queste prime comunicazioni, nelle quali manca sempre la certezza delle vere cause e delle fonti dal quale
The coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) is a highly transmittable and pathogenic viral infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which emerged in Wuhan, China and spread around the world. Genomic analysis revealed that SARS-CoV-2 is phylogenetically related to severe acute respiratory syndrome-like (SARS-like) bat viruses, therefore bats could be the
L’Italia era tra i principali produttori e coltivatori mondiali di canapa sativa o industriale fino alla prima metà del secolo scorso. Nel 1931 la coltura (destinata al settore tessile) occupava 90.000 ettari dei migliori terreni italiani, producendo tra 850.000 e 1.000.000 di quintali di fibra, per un valore di 700 milioni di lire.