‘Protests may spread virus’

LOS ANGELES: Health experts fear that silent carriers of the virus who have no symptoms could unwittingly infect others at gatherings with people packed cheek to jowl and cheering and jeering, many without masks.

On Saturday, US protesters took to the streets over the death of a black man. Paris, Germany, Hong Kong and Bosnia have also seen protests in the past week for different reasons. “Whether they’re fired up or not, that doesn’t prevent them from getting the virus,” said Bradley Pollock, chairman of the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of California, Davis.