Ventilation must be a key priority for facilities housing sick and infected people because it is instrumental in preventing airborne transmission of diseases, says International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health Professor Lidia Morawska.
Concerns are being raised by health professionals who are flagging airborne transmission as a possible method of transmitting the coronavirus within hotel quarantine facilities – after several workers contracted the virus.
“If infections occur at a distance but with people who have nothing to do with each other, it is very difficult to explain it in any other way,” Professor Morawska told Sky News.
She said facilities – such as hotels – were subject to mechanical ventilation which is not designed to cater to the strict health regulations required for the hotel quarantine program.