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REVIEW ARTICLE

Transmission and Transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2: What We Know and What We Not

The Open COVID Journal 10 Nov 2021 REVIEW ARTICLE DOI: 10.2174/2666958702101010112

Abstract

Declared as a pandemic on March 11, 2020, COVID -19 has made it essential for the entire world to control and ensure safety measures for such infections in the future. To take any measures, one must be sure of the route of transmission of the agent causing Pandemic. With so many controversies in its mode of spread, COVID-19 has raised questions for the researchers to confirm its various modes of spread. Many of these modes can be overlooked; it is necessary to emphasize and illustrate them. The aim of this paper is to provide a brief overview of the various modes of COVID-19 transmission. According to the published literature, COVID-19 is primarily transmitted from person to person through oral and respiratory aerosols, with droplets from the virus-infected environment playing a minor role in disease transmission. The infection is particularly dangerous for healthcare workers and the elderly with comorbidities.

Keyword: COVID-19, Modes of transmission, Safety measures, Airborne, Repository aerosols, Transmission.
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