disease.For those sitting on the same row, they said this figure was 1.5 percent.The 'attack rate' for each seat -- which is the number of passengers in a given seat diagnosed with COVID-19, divided by the total number of passengers travelling in the same seat -- increased by 0.15 percent for every hour that a person travelled with an infected individual, the study noted.For those in adjacent seats, it said, this rate of increase was higher at 1.3 percent per hour.The study also found that only 0.075 percent of people who used a seat previously occupied by the infected patient went on to contract the disease.In the research, the scientists used complex mathematical modelling to analyse anonymised itinerary and infection data relating to.