REHVA welcomes the fact that the World Health Organization acknowledged in a press conference the emerging evidence of airborne spread of COVID-19 following an open letter by 239 scientists from 32 countries, including many REHVA experts, published this week in the Journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.

This step was long-awaited by REHVA and several professional organisations and scientific bodies across the world that have been advocating for considering the transmission via aerosols/micro droplets as possibility and apply necessary mitigation measures.

You can find here the press release with the REHVA statement on the airborne transmission of COVID19 acknowledged by WHO.