Investigations into a cluster of cases in the South Korean city of Cheonan revealed that eight fitness instructors became infected with the virus after attending a 4-hour Zumba workshop. The risk also seems to be higher when people are more physically active. However, “what we can say is that SARS-CoV-2 spread tends to be higher in communal areas where there are higher numbers of people passing through, or in areas where there is more physical engagement with the surroundings, for example door handles, desks and computer keyboards”, says Seema Jasim at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, UK. Outside the home, it is difficult to rank the relative risks, because environments vary so widely.
“The virus spreads more in communal areas with higher numbers of people passing through” They found that the risk of the infection being passed on at home or by repeated contact with the same person was approximately 10 times greater than the risk of passing it on in a hospital and 100 times greater than doing so on public transport ( medRxiv, doi.org/dwgj). Researchers in Guangzhou, China, examined how the virus was transmitted between 347 people with confirmed infections and the people they had contact with. You are most likely to catch the SARS-CoV-2 virus by spending a long time near an infected person in an enclosed space. Face coverings are advised in enclosed public spaces.
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