planning are needed to selectively choose the system to be implemented in accordance with the
capabilities and field conditions.
Table 1. The factors that need to be considered related to the ventilation and air conditioning systems to
reduce the risk of transmission. (Source: personal)
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capabilities and field conditions.
Table 1. The factors that need to be considered related to the ventilation and air conditioning systems to
reduce the risk of transmission. (Source: personal)
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Dietz, L., Horve, P.F., Coil, D.A., Fretz, M., Eisen, J.A., and Van Den Wymelenberga, K. 2020. 2019 Novel
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Built Environment Considerations to Reduce Transmission. Msystems
5(2).
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). 2020. Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning
systems in the context of COVID-19.
Leclerc, Q.J., Fuller, N.M., Knight, L.E., Funk, S., and Knight, G.M. 2020. What settings have been linked to
SARS-CoV-2 transmission clusters? Wellcome Open Research 2020 5:83.
Lu, J., Gu, J., Li, K., Xu, C., Su, W., and Lai, Z. 2020. COVID-19 Outbreak Associated with Air Conditioning in
Restaurant, Guangzhou, China, 2020. Emerging Infectious Diseases, www.cdc.gov/eid 26 (7):1628–1630.
National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (NCCEH). 2020. An Introduction to SARS-CoV-2.
Vancouver, BC: NCCEH.
Qian, H., Miao, T., Liu, L., Zheng, X., Luo, D., and Li, Y. 2020. Indoor transmission of SARS-CoV-2. medRxiv
preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.04.20053058.
World Health Organization (WHO). 2009. Natural Ventilation for Infection Control in Health-Care Settings.
Switzerland: WHO Press.
World Health Organization (WHO). 2020. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. [online]. (Last
update: August 2, 2020, 07:00 GMT+7). https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus2019 (accessed on August 5, 2020).
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