Will air-conditioning spread COVID?
Among the anxiety and bewilderment, a number of claims have circulated on the internet, one of which is that the coronavirus can be transmitted by air conditioning. This allegation has about as much credibility as the random ‘self-proclaimed health professional' on Facebook who is doing everything they can to create fear. Let's get one thing out of the way first. There have been no cases or links between air conditioning in Katoomba and the spread of the Coronavirus, according to current findings at the time of writing this article. How is Coronavirus spread? COVID-19 is spread through person-to-person contact. This occurs when a person comes into touch with an infected person's respiratory secretions through coughing or sneezing. It necessitates close contact with persons who have been in close quarters with an infected person for at least 15 minutes or have been in the same closed space with an infected person for at least 2 hours. Technically, the only way for the viru...