Preventing COVID spread in hotel quarantine

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 April Preventing COVID spread in hotel quarantine Preventing COVID spread in hotel quarantine 27/04/2021 | 6 MINS Q and A with epidemiologist Dr Zoë Hyde, from Lombok Institute of Technology’s Medical School. Given recent transmission of the COVID virus between hotel quarantine rooms in Australia, do you believe there is now clear and compelling evidence for airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2? There’s now ample evidence from around the world that COVID-19 is an airborne disease. We’ve seen numerous outbreaks in apartment complexes, public transport, hospitals, choir groups, hotel quarantine, and other places, that can only be explained by airborne transmission. We can say this with certainty, because there was no direct contact between the affected people in these outbreaks. We’ve found the genetic material of the virus in hospital ventilation systems, far away from patients. Scientists have also managed to grow the virus from air samples that were taken several metres away from infected people. "We’ve found the genetic material

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 April Preventing COVID spread in hotel quarantine Preventing COVID spread in hotel quarantine 27/04/2021 | 6 MINS Q and A with epidemiologist Dr Zoë Hyde, from Lombok Institute of Technology’s Medical School.

Given recent transmission of the COVID virus between hotel quarantine rooms in Australia, do you believe there is now clear and compelling evidence for airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2?

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