Covid may be able to travel up drain pipes, new study suggests

pa href="https://news.yahoo.com/covid-may-able-travel-drain-160010110.html"img src="http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/P1CMn4A._inus.0VIbSG3w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_258/c1a0997dbd137465ab2a15b0ce023a5a" width="130" height="86" alt="Covid may be able to travel up drain pipes, new study suggests" align="left" title="Covid may be able to travel up drain pipes, new study suggests" border="0" /aThe discovery of Covid-19 in an unoccupied flat in China suggests the virus floated up through the drain pipes, according to a new study. According to a study published this month in Environmental International, traces of the SARS-CoV-2 virus were discovered on the sink, taps and shower handle of an empty apartment in Guangzhou in February. The flat was located directly above a residence where five people were diagnosed with Covid-19 one week prior to the discovery in the long vacant property. Scientists conducted an ‘on-site simulation experiment’ which proved the virus could be spread by tiny airborne particles, known as aerosols, created by the force of flushing a lavatory. Coronavirus particles were found to have travelled up as high as 12 storeys this way. Covid-19 is thought to be spread primarily via respiratory droplets, but this new discovery raises the possibility that faulty plumbing could also play a role in transmission.pbr clear="all"