coronavirus spreads on planes could mean bad news for travellers. The research, published by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), analysed a single 10-hour flight from March.
Flight VN54 from London to Hanoi on March 2 carried 217 passengers, 16 of whom were diagnosed with Covid-19 afterwards. A 27-year-old Vietnamese woman sitting in business class is believed to have been the source of the outbreak, meaning a single "super spreader" was able to transmit SARS-CoV-2 throughout the plane.Reports say 12 other business class passengers are known to have contracted the virus during the flight.The study found that "seating proximity was strongly associated with increased infection risk", despite passengers being more spaced.