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Transmission and Transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2: What We Know and What We Not
Hiba Sami1, Mohammad Shahid2, *, Parvez Anwar Khan1, Haris M Khan1
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2021Volume: 1
First Page: 112
Last Page: 116
Publisher ID: TOCOVIDJ-1-112
DOI: 10.2174/2666958702101010112
Article History:
Received Date: 29/3/2021Revision Received Date: 15/6/2021
Acceptance Date: 29/6/2021
Electronic publication date: 10/11/2021
Collection year: 2021
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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.