Infectious disease specialist Malyshev named family and transport as the main place of spread of COVID-19
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COVID-19 spreads most of all within the family. This is due to close contact, shared with “Tape.
But in order for the virus to spread within the family, it needs to be brought from somewhere, often they get infected in public transport, the doctor said. “These are railway stations and airports, especially in storage devices, and a lot of people get infected, because it’s crowded there, as a rule, everyone without a mask,” he explained.
Taxi rides, according to Malyshev, do not affect the spread of COVID-19 so much, since a decent distance remains between the passenger and the driver, if they are sitting in masks and diagonally.
Earlier, virologist Alexey Agranovsky assessed the danger of the spread of the omicron strain of coronavirus and the delta variant in Russia.
