with me is dr catherine glass and dr brian mccloskey.what yourjob title was?|j was the director tell me what yourjob title was?” was the director of health for public health england and i now work for chatham house. thank you both for chatham house. thank you both for being here to answer your questions. catherine, can covid—i9 droplets infect ourselves through cuts on our hands if we are not wearing gloves? thank you for having me on. no, there is no evidence the virus is transmitted by blood. covid—19 is primarily a respiratory virus which can affect the digestive system. for a virus to attack the human body needs to locate and replicate itself in host cells. these cells are located in the respiratory tract in the lower part of the long and the digestive tract. it needs something called binding sites, type of protein. these binding sites do not exist in any cells in the bloodstream so therefore the virus cannot invade via blood or any blood transfusion. brian, this is a question from janice. whilst queueing outside my local supermarket

doctor brian mccloskey public health advisor to the world health organisation thinks the focus shouldback to the parkruns, that were becoming very popular in the uk for communities before this, you could start those because they don't involve a lot of travel around the country. they involve local communities. you can manage how it is done and in doing that you can learn how marshalling can help with social distancing in a ran. larger events that involve travel out of the local community and more people could be logistically more difficult. the premier league are talking about resuming on the 8th ofjune, which he thinks might just be possible. not having big crowds going in and out of a stadium will reduce the risk. all the tv cameras and all those things. the smaller numbers it is breezier to keep people separate and get them in and out quicker. sporting events don't come bigger than the olympics and there has been concern over the ability of tokyo 2020 to go ahead if a vaccine is not available. yet dr mccloskey is more confident with over a year to go. i think when we talk about toky

catherine is a gp and brian mccloskey, who is the former, as i remember, a director. gloves ? good afternoon, julia. so, no, there is no evidence that the virus is transmitted via bloods. it's primarily a respiratory virus which has the potential to also affect the digestive system. for a virus to attack the human body, it needs to locate and invade host cells, which it uses to replicate itself. as these host cells are located primarily in the respiratory tract, especially the lower part, the lung. and they're also found in the digestive tract. so in order for a virus to attach to these host cells, it needs something called binding sites, which are a type of protein. and these binding sites do not exist in any cells within the bloodstream. therefore, the virus cannot invade via blood or via any kind of blood transfusion. 36 brian, this is a question from janice crouse who asks whilst queuing outside my local supermarket, the person in front of me exhaled large clouds of vapor from an e—cigarette. how dangerous is this? should it be banned? i think it‘s certainly unple