Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the covid-19 transmission rates caused by airborne viral load.
The Environmental and Modelling Group and the Transmission Group have considered airborne transmission in a range of their papers as one of the three main routes of transmission for COVID-19 and provided advice to the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.
Good ventilation of indoor spaces will dilute and remove virus in the air. People should not spend long periods of time in poorly ventilated spaces with other people. Cloth face coverings are likely to have some benefit in reducing the risk of aerosol transmission. Face coverings will reduce the dispersion of respiratory droplets and small aerosols that carry the virus into the air from an infected person.