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title: "Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 air contamination in hospitals with Coriolis μ air sampler"
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#  Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 air contamination in hospitals with Coriolis μ air sampler

 Written by Gwyn Winfield on 12 June 2020.

The current pandemic of Covid-19 has shown the vulnerability of our healthcare systems when faced with viral infections without a known treatment Understanding the transmission behavior of SARS-CoV-2 in the air will be a crucial step to managing the current outbreak and design the appropriate prevention and control measures. In this document, we present how researchers in Imperial College have been evaluating SARS-CoV-2 surface and air contamination in a hospital during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in London, using surface swabs and the Coriolis μ air sampler coupled with RT qPCR and viral culture.

To access the Imperial College paper [click here ](https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.24.20110346v2.full.pdf)

To find out more about the Coriolis and Bertin's range of air samplers [click here ](https://www.bertin-instruments.com/products-range/air-samplers/)

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