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Laid off? Some banks may pay you out retrenchment benefits. Photo: Getty Images Some FNB customers who previously did not qualify for payment under the bank's retrenchment policies because they were laid off can now try again.FNB Life said it is extending its credit life insurance benefits to cover, among other things, people who took…

after medical procedures that produce aerosols, or droplets smaller than 5 microns. (A micron is equal to one millionth of a meter.)Proper ventilation and N95 masks are of concern only in those circumstances, according to the W.H.O. Instead, its infection control guidance, before and during this pandemic, has heavily promoted the importance of handwashing as…

The World Health Organization on Tuesday walked back comments from a top official who said it was “very rare” for someone to contract the coronavirus from an asymptomatic carrier. “Some estimates of around 40 percent of transmission may be due to asymptomatic [cases], but those are from models. So I didn’t include that in my…