What's the connection between a bus packed with religious worshippers and a high-rise apartment in China? They could both be cases where COVID-19 has spread by airborne transmission.
This story takes us from a bus full of religious worshippers travelling to an outdoor event in eastern China, to the bathrooms of a high-rise apartment block in southern China.
Faecal aerosols from a bathroom on the 15th floor are thought to have travelled up the building via the shared drainage system. Members of a family living on the 15th floor of the building had recently been to Wuhan where the pandemic started.Some days after they first showed symptoms of COVID-19, neighbours on the 25th and 27th floors in apartments directly above theirs wereIt is thought virus particles in the faeces of the first family were aerosolised and travelled up the building via the shared drainage system, and through dried out water seals into the other apartments' master bathrooms.
, 321 people from a private apartment complex in Hong Kong were infected from one person visiting the complex a couple of times and using the toilet in his brother's apartment on both occasions.
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