Scientists call for more focus on ventilation in stopping Covid
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A group of 39 scientists from all over the world, including the Netherlands, are calling on governments to pay more attention to the role of good ventilation in the battle against coronavirus.
In an article in leading academic journal Science, they suggest that good ventilation can prevent coronavirus being spread by aerosols, or tiny droplets which hang in the air. In the Netherlands, ventilation does not yet have a major role in the official strategy to combat infection.
‘In other countries they have spotted this problem earlier and have been looking at the ventilation options much longer,’ Delft University professor Philomena Bluyssen, one of the authors, told current affairs show Nieuwsuur. ‘The RIVM is one of the few groups that has not yet clearly recognized the importance of the aerosol route,’ Bluyssen said.