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Old Aug 6, 2020, 9:18 pm
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CXYYZ
 
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There was a Wall Street Journal article about transmission risk on planes. The link is here (paywall): https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-gre...ly-11594824268

The key extract relevant to this discussion of certain testing requirements:

There are few known cases of transmission of coronavirus inside an airplane. Contact tracing after a flight March 31 between the U.S. and Taiwan with 12 symptomatic Covid-19 passengers on board revealed no onboard transmission among 328 other passengers and crew, according to an IATA report. A flight from China to Canada with one symptomatic passenger revealed no onboard transmission. However, preliminary research on a London-to-Vietnam flight on March 2 suggests that one passenger likely infected 14 others, 12 of whom were seated nearby.
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