Public urinals and toilets can spread COVID-19.

Flushing urinals involves an interaction between gas and liquid interfaces, releasing large-scale aerosol from the urinals that spread the virus.

Flushing urinals involves an interaction between gas and liquid interfaces, releasing large-scale aerosol from the urinals that spread the virus.The COVID-19 outbreak, which started in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, and soon spread to other parts of the world. COVID-19 transmits through the respiratory tract and then induces pneumonia. However, it can also be transmitted through flushing urinals releasing clouds of virus-carrying aerosols that people may probably inhale.

The researchers revealed that the trajectory of the tiny particles emitted by flushing a urinal manifests an external spread type, with more than fifty-seven percent of the particles traveling away from the urinal. In their earlier studies, scientists from Yangzhou University, China, had shown that both feces- and urine-based COVID-19 transmission is possible. So the researcher's advice wearings masks while using a public toilet. COVID-19 can also be transmitted through the oral-fecal route by infecting intestines. Reports from Emerging Microbes and Infection provides a cautionary warning that COVID-19 maybe shed through multiple pathways.

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