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coronavirus transmission to take place.Dr Julian Tang, a consultant virologist at Leicester Royal Infirmary, said that if you can smell your friend’s lunch from their breath then you could be inhaling any virus that comes with that.Appearing on Sky News, he urged governments and health officials to focus their efforts on airborne transmission.Dr Tang claimed that the current emphasis on washing hands is wrong and said that more should be done to promote good ventilation in indoor settings, reports Hull Live.“The message ‘hands, face, space’, we think should be really ‘space, space, hands’,” he said.“The way this virus transmits is really through conversational distance, within one metre.“When you’re talking to a friend or sharing the same

direct to your inbox Virologists are calling for a rethink over social distancing rules to help control the spread of coronavirus. Dr Julian Tang, a virologist at the University of Leicester, told Sky News the exhaled breath of something with Covid symptoms can contain 200 virus particles.