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There is no flight in the world so long as to sit next to an infected person for two days, which, according to the study, drives away the ghost of contagion during any flight, be it domestic or intercontinental, even if a mask is not used.
The Spanish Airline Association (ALA), which hosts about 80 airlines operating in its country, has analyzed different studies (including the American one) to conclude that the risk of contagion of the coronavirus in an airplane is minimal and calls for the realization of tests to travelers, back and forth, to ease travel restrictions and regain connectivity and trust, indicates the Efe agency.
The study by the US Department of Defense is based on the results of 300 tests carried out on the ground and in the air during six months, to analyze the transmission capacity of the virus by simulating a passenger infected by COVID-19, and concludes that the risk of contagion of coronavirus aboard the plane is 0.0003%.
The airlines also did their studies
Airbus compared the spread of droplets expelled by coughing in an A320 cabin and those produced in another environment where several individuals maintain a distance of 1.8 meters, such as an office, and the result is that there was less exposure to contagion in the plane.
For its part, Boeing tracked the movement of particles in the cabin when coughing and breathing under different scenarios (with and without masks, in different locations and with variations in the cold air outlet), which led it to conclude that sitting Together in an airplane is equivalent to being more than 2 meters apart in a typical building.
Embraer analyzed the environment considering a passenger sitting in different seats and with different airflow conditions in different aircraft models and its result was that the risk of contagion on board is extremely low.
According to IATA, since the beginning of 2020, 1.2 billion passengers have traveled and 44 cases of COVID-19 associated with air travel have been registered. These figures place the probability of contagion on board at 1 for every 27 million passengers, which means that there is twice the probability of hitting the primitive one (1 in 13.9 million) than of catching this virus on a plane.
A recent study published by the Emerging Infectious Diseases magazine reveals that within the aircraft cabin there is an area in which there is a greater possibility of contagion risk and that is in the middle part of the fuselage (economy class).
The following video from the manufacturer Airbus shows why, according to them, traveling by plane is safer than staying in an office or a shopping center:
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