The second wave of coronavirus has taken a heavy toll on India’s population. Hospitals and medical facilities are struggling to keep up with the rising number of COVID-19 patients and the unfortunate and tragic accounts of deaths are rising every passing day.

Given that SARs-COV-2 is a highly infectious and transmissible disease, experts have suggested that it can spread not just by close contact but also through large droplets known as aerosols, released when someone sneezes, coughs, talks or laughs.
According to a study published in The Lancet journal, consistent and strong evidence suggest that COVID-19 is predominantly transmitted through the air.
The same study noted that transmission rates of COVID-19 were much higher indoors than outdoors, and transmission was greatly reduced by indoor ventilation.
Similarly, as per the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “Based on data from lab studies on COVID-19 and what we know about similar respiratory diseases, it may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes, but this isn’t thought to be the main way the virus spreads.”