Photo: FileThe government is being urged to stop using any hotels with sub-par ventilation for managed isolation so it can prevent Covid spreading between unwitting guests. Auckland University professor of medicine Des Gorman said, though ventilation transmission was unlikely, it was possible because some hotels had systems that allowed droplets to spread to other rooms. The government was already looking into some aspects of hotel air conditioning after a managed isolation outbreak in Brisbane suspected to have been spread by air con. That could lead to any vulnerabilities in the managed isolation system being uncovered and fixed. They said everything practical must be done to make the isolation system as safe as possible.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 25, 2021 17:26 UTC