A 'super spreader' was likely responsible for 16 positive coronavirus cases on one flight, according to a new study into how the infection spreads on planes.
The paper warns the current practice of keeping middle seats empty "seems to be insufficient" at preventing such outbreaks. Researchers analysed 10-hour Flight VN54 from London to Hanoi, Vietnam, on March 2 - with the results now published by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Two-hundred and seventeen passengers were on board with a 27-year-old Vietnamese woman in business class believed to have been the source of the outbreak, reports the Daily Star.