Health Check Ep 29: Virologist Prof Wang Linfa offers hand hygiene tips to counter novel coronavirus threat
12:17 mins
Synopsis: In this fortnightly podcast series on Wednesdays, The Straits Times guides you to healthier living and clears up common misconceptions on health.
In this episode, ST correspondent Joyce Teo calls Professor Wang Linfa.
He is the director of the emerging infectious disease programme at Duke-NUS Medical School. He is also a virologist who was part of the World Health Organization Emergency Committee on the novel coronavirus outbreak.
We ask him the latest updates on the novel coronavirus, and what we can do to protect ourselves.
Professor Wang tells us:
Produced by: Joyce Teo and Ernest Luis
Edited by: Penelope Lee
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