The probability of a person being alone on the street, infected with coronavirus, is not, as the virus lives only in the body, said the expert of the Center for molecular diagnostics CMD TSNII of epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor Mikhail Lebedev.
"Once in the environment, the virus is doomed, he collapses and loses infectious activity", — said Lebedev, RIA Novosti.
He explained that the coronavirus is transmitted from person to person by airborne droplets, and drip the way more probable it’s usually not.
"you Can imagine that in certain situations, if a person sneezed, that a cloud of droplets hung and moves in the air, but in any case, it is posted to different distances and concentration of the virus drops sharply already in the next minute", — said Lebedev.
According to him, even if a healthy person passes through such a cloud and inhales deeply, it is likely that contamination will not, because the amount of virus in the air will already be insufficient to cause any problems. In addition, coronavirus, when it gets on the mucosa, immediately encounters the first barrier, the so-called tissue immunity, sometimes it is enough that the virus does not caused the disease, said the expert.
In addition, a healthy person must have a predisposition to the disease, because it may be that at the moment his immunity at a high level, said Lebedev.
"maybe he has a genetic neprikosnovennosti to coronavirus infection. Now scientists are just studying the possibility of the existence of such people. They, of course, not a lot, but the probability that they exist", — said the expert.
World health organization March 11 announced the outbreak of a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 pandemic. According to the latest who data, there have been recorded more than 4.2 million cases of infection, over 294 thousand people died.
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