Lee Kong Chian, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, 43000, Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2021 Oct;28(38):53478-53492. doi: 10.1007/s11356-021-14519-9. Epub 2021 May 25.
The COVID-19 pandemic has plunged the world into uncharted territory, leaving people feeling helpless in the face of an invisible threat of unknown duration that could adversely impact the national economic growths. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the SARS-CoV-2 spreads primarily through droplets of saliva or discharge from the mouth or nose when an infected person coughs or sneezes. However, the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 through aerosols remains unclear. In this study, computational fluid dynamic (CFD) is used to complement the investigation of the SARS-CoV-2 transmission through aerosol. The Lagrangian particle tracking method was used to analyze the dispersion of the exhaled particles from a SARS-CoV-2-positive patient under different exhale activities and different flow rates of chilled (cooling) air supply. Air sampling of the SARS-CoV-2 patient ward was conducted for 48-h measurement intervals to collect the indoor air sample for particulate with diameter less than 2.5 μm. Then, the reverse transcription quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) was conducted to analyze the collected air sample. The simulation demonstrated that the aerosol transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in an enclosed room (such as a hospital ward) is highly possible.
新冠疫情使全球陷入未知领域,人们面对一种持续时间未知的无形威胁感到无助,这种威胁可能会对国家经济增长产生不利影响。世界卫生组织(WHO)表示,新冠病毒主要通过感染者咳嗽或打喷嚏时从口腔或鼻腔中呼出的飞沫或分泌物传播。然而,新冠病毒通过气溶胶传播的情况仍不清楚。在这项研究中,计算流体动力学(CFD)被用于补充对通过气溶胶传播的新冠病毒的调查。拉格朗日粒子跟踪法被用于分析在不同呼气活动和不同冷却空气供应流速下,来自新冠病毒阳性患者的呼出颗粒的分散情况。对新冠病毒患者病房进行了 48 小时测量间隔的空气采样,以收集直径小于 2.5μm 的室内空气样本。然后,进行逆转录定量实时聚合酶链反应(RT-qPCR)分析收集的空气样本。模拟表明,在封闭的房间(如医院病房)中,新冠病毒的气溶胶传播是极有可能的。
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