Can your home help stop you catching Covid from loved ones?

UTS School of Architecture researcher, Professor Geoff Hanmer, has been studying the role that buildings and their ventilation can play in the transmission of Covid between its occupants. With findings applicable to buildings of all sizes – from multi-storey office blocks to humble suburban homes.

This recent ABC News article examines three different households, with three different Covid outcomes for their inhabitants. It then closes with some advice from Prof Hanmer.

If you've got good ventilation, the chance of you breathing in enough virus particles to infect you is low. If you have poor ventilation, there's a much greater probability that you're breathing in virus particles.

- UTS Professor Geoff Hanmer

 In the case of many homes, with no medical-grade filters on air-conditioning systems, the solution to reducing the risk of Covid transmission could be as simple as opening windows to allow good air flow.

You can read the full article, finishing with Prof Hanmer's contribution, on the ABC News website.

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