SINGAPORE - A Chinese study has suggested that air-conditioning may help spread the coronavirus.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The study, published on the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention website and approved by the Ethics Committee of the Guangzhou Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, looked at 10 coronavirus cases from three families who ate at a restaurant at the same time in Guangzhou, China.
Later that day, the index patient developed a fever and cough, and went to the hospital where he tested positive. By early February, a total of nine others from the three families became ill with the virus. Among the 83 customers that day, 10 became ill with Covid-19; the other 73 were identified as close contacts and quarantined for 14 days. During that time both the air-conditioner and the quarantined customers tested negative for coronavirus.
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