Every Monday, we’ll answer your questions on Covid-19 and health in a feature published online. You can submit a question here.

This week, HuffPost UK reader Terry asked: “Does vaping by an infectious person make spread more likely?”As it stands, there’s no evidence to show the virus that causes coronavirus – SARS-CoV-2 – is more likely to spread through e-cigarette vapour or cigarette smoke than, say, breathing out normally.

But, Professor Linda Bauld, a public health expert…

An attorney for the never-Trumper Lincoln Project sent a scathing legal response Saturday to a lawsuit threat over a pair of attack ads against Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner on billboards in Times Square.

The billboards skewer Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law for their callous indifference to the COVID-19 death toll in America, that now stands at nearly 225,000.

The Lincoln Project received a letter Friday from lawyer Marc Kasowitz, representing the White House…

The UK government has signed its trade deal with Japan, in what it called an “historic moment,” after it was agreed in principle in September this year.

The deal comes after decades of Japan negotiating trade agreements only via the European Union.

The UK–Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, as it is known, will boost trade by £15bn ($19.3bn) in the long-term, according to Britain’s department for international trade. However, analysts said the deal had only…

None of the trials of Covid-19 candidate vaccines can detect a reduction in serious outcomes such as hospitalisation or death, a leading public health expert said Thursday.

Writing in the BMJ medical journal, associate editor Peter Doshi warned that not even phase 3 trials under way in the race for a vaccine can prove their product will prevent people contracting Covid-19.

In a sobering essay, Doshi said those hoping for a breakthrough to end the pandemic would be disappointed,…

Office friendships are atrophying amid remote work.

But you can reap tangible benefits by putting in the effort to keep up intimacy with your office mates.

There was a time, in the not-so-distant past, when going out to lunch, day after day, with the same group of colleagues was as mundane a part of daily life as the morning meeting or evening commute. But after six months of eating sad desk salads alone, the idea of lunch with our work clique has never felt so exciting.

As…

The latest adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca is “bland”, argues Caryn James, who writes that this film “feels as if someone at Downton Abbey were having a bad day”.

Daphne du Maurier wrote the novel Rebecca inspired by jealousy and insecurity, but it all turned out great in the end. Several years before, she had discovered letters to her husband from his beautiful former fiancée, who had taken her own life. How could she compete with a ghost? Du Maurier channelled that anxiety…

Lockdown and remote work have meant hours of staring at our own faces on video calls – and prompted interest in going under the knife.

As much as we may now be trained to sit on video calls and stare at our colleagues through a computer screen, many of us find ourselves constantly distracted during our daily huddles and meetings. It’s not the dog barking in the background, or the roommate making lunch over someone’s shoulder – it’s the sight of our own faces.

And the longer…

The Japanese government has decided to release radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. That's according reports from the Kyodo news agency and other media on Friday (October 16). They say a formal announcement is expected to be made later this month. The nuclear plant at Fukushima was crippled by an earthquake and tsunami nine years ago. Since then, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings has collected more than one million tons of contaminated water.…

Powered by strong support from avid fans, shares of South Korea’s Big Hit Entertainment, the company that manages global pop sensation BTS, soared in their trading debut Thursday in Seoul.

Big Hit’s solid debut after an IPO that netted more than $800 million was widely expected by analysts given the loyalty of the fan base to the seven-member boy band that has been dominating Billboard charts after gathering a huge following around the globe.

Despite the concert-killing…

A donation from Facebook has helped save some jobs at the Bletchley Park wartime coding centre in Milton Keynes.

During World War Two, Bletchley Park saw key advances in the development of computing, with Alan Turing and other leading scientists and mathematicians seeking faster ways of decoding German messages.

The social media giant is giving £1m to the museum at the site, which has been facing a financial crisis.

In August, the Bletchley Park Trust revealed that it…

Since the first cases of COVID-19 were identified last year in Wuhan, China, it was clear that the highly infectious virus wreaks serious damage on the respiratory system, specifically the lungs. Now, researchers have revealed a deadly new respiratory symptom of the virus—only it is not visual to the naked eye.

A new study conducted by researchers at Umeå University in Sweden introduces the symptom they identify as "jelly lungs," after finding that many people who died of the virus…

China says Iran's foreign minister will visit the country from Friday to Saturday, a day after the Trump administration blacklisted virtually all of Iran’s financial sector in the latest step aimed at the oil-rich country’s economy.slotxo

In a brief announcement, China’s foreign ministry said only that Foreign Minister Javad Zarif was visiting at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. China has been a staunch…

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Singapore hopes to start "cruises to nowhere" in a bid to revive its coronavirus-hit tourism industry, but critics warned Monday against a risky move that could spark Covid-19 outbreaks.

The global cruise industry has largely ground to halt due to virus-related travel restrictions, and following a series of outbreaks on packed vessels.But the tourism board in Singapore, a key port and transport hub in Asia, is holding talks with cruise lines on putting on voyages that depart from and…

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