THE QUESTION . While the contours of deconfinement are gradually taking shape, the risks of spreading Covid-19 in an enclosed space are at the heart of the strategies under study. Public transport, offices, restaurants ... How to repopulate them without making the coronavirus epidemic start again? And when the weather returns, can ventilation and air conditioning systems help spread a virus that seems to spread so easily?
CHECK . The example of a restaurant in Canton, China, where only the customers who were on the “path” of the air projected by the air conditioning system were sick, offers an initial response, which is not very optimistic.
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These clients were infected by a person who had not yet developed symptoms of Covid-19. She was not coughing and therefore had not a priori projected infectious droplets, these particles of more than 5 micrometers which remain in suspension for a short time and which are, according to the Organization
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