The urgent need to regulate indoor ventilation and air quality to battle COVID | ABC News
Published at : September 30, 2021
As Australia prepares for a new year with open borders and a resulting jump in COVID-19 case numbers, leading scientists say there is an urgent need to better regulate indoor ventilation and air quality.
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Australia lags behind other countries on rolling out air filtration systems in schools to help prevent the virus running rampant through unvaccinated children, experts said.
Queensland University of Technology professor Lidia Morawska was recently named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world for her role in highlighting the airborne transmission of COVID-19.
She said the lack of indoor air quality standards in Australia is "a big problem" because without them "no-one does anything".
"The community for the past year-and-a-half has been taught to clean hands, sanitise hands, clean surfaces … but nothing about cleaning the air," Professor Morawska said.
She said a "paradigm change" is needed in the design of public buildings to ensure the air inside them is clean.
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Australia lags behind other countries on rolling out air filtration systems in schools to help prevent the virus running rampant through unvaccinated children, experts said.
Queensland University of Technology professor Lidia Morawska was recently named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world for her role in highlighting the airborne transmission of COVID-19.
She said the lack of indoor air quality standards in Australia is "a big problem" because without them "no-one does anything".
"The community for the past year-and-a-half has been taught to clean hands, sanitise hands, clean surfaces … but nothing about cleaning the air," Professor Morawska said.
She said a "paradigm change" is needed in the design of public buildings to ensure the air inside them is clean.
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