Chinese study suggests air-conditioning may help spread virus

The study which looked at 10 coronavirus cases found that droplet transmission might have been propelled by air-conditioning. - Photo illustration: Pexels

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): A Chinese study has suggested that air-conditioning may help spread the coronavirus.

The study, published on the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website and approved by the Ethics Committee of the Guangzhou Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, looked at 10 coronavirus cases from three families who ate at a restaurant at the same time in Guangzhou, China.