{"id":38443,"date":"2020-07-22T07:18:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T07:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=38443"},"modified":"2020-07-23T18:06:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T18:06:14","slug":"infectious-sars-cov-2-in-air-and-on-surfaces-in-london-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/38443","title":{"rendered":"Infectious SARS-CoV-2 in air and on surfaces in London hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"HTBsubhead3authorcredit\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/COVID-19-graphic.png\" width=\"231\" height=\"142\" \/><\/b>Simon Collins, HIV i-Base<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtextbold\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">A prospective cross-sectional observational study collected both air samples and swabs from multiple hospital sites occupied by people hospitalised with COVID-19 as well as general areas of a London hospital.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The results were reported by Jie Zhoi and colleagues from Imperial College London and reported on 8 July 2020 in Clinical Infectious Diseases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Surfaces <\/span>included bed rails, clinical monitoring devices (blood pressure monitors), ward telephones, computer keyboards, clinical equipment (syringe pumps, urinary catheters), hand-cleaning facilities (hand washing basins and alcohol gel dispensers), with air sampled in immediate vicinity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">All areas were disinfected daily with an additional twice daily disinfection of high touch surfaces using a combined chlorine-based detergent\/disinfectant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Between 2 &#8211; 20 April 2020, during the peak of the epidemic, viral RNA was detected on 114\/218 (52.3%) of surfaces and 14\/31 (38.7%) air samples. However, no virus was cultured, likely due to lower concentrations (all <\/span>corresponding to an E gene copy number of &lt;10<sup>5<\/sup> per mL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Samples were more likely to be positive in COVID-19 wards than other areas (67\/105 (63.8%) vs. 29\/64 (45.3%); OR 0.5, 95% CI: 0.2 to 0.9, p=0.025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">These results supported the need for effective use of PPE, physical distancing, and hand\/surface hygiene.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBreference-noindent\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Reference<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBreference-noindent\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Zhou J et al. Investigating SARS-CoV-2 surface and air contamination in an acute healthcare setting during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in London. Clinical Infectious Diseases, ciaa905,\u00a0DOI: 10.1093\/cid\/ciaa905. (08 July 2020).<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/cid\/article\/doi\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa905\/5868534\u00a0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/cid\/article\/doi\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa905\/5868534\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This report was first published on 12 July 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBsubhead3authorcredit\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Collins, HIV i-Base A prospective cross-sectional observational study collected both air samples and swabs from multiple hospital sites occupied by people hospitalised with COVID-19 as well as general areas of a London hospital. The results were reported by Jie &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289,278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19-transmission","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}