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Letter: Surely recycled indoor air is a coronavirus risk factor

Published 8 July 2020

From Lynn Brookes, Preston, Lancashire, UK

Alan Harding wonders if air conditioning is a risk in spreading the coronavirus (Letters, 2 May). I would say there is little doubt it can spread disease when you consider the issues of recycled air in aircraft and sick building syndrome in high-rise office blocks.

Issue no. 3290 published 11 July 2020

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