Study shows increased hand hygiene at top 10 airports can reduce spread of coronavirus by 37 percent

(Society for Risk Analysis) The study finds that increasing traveler engagement with proper hand-hygiene at all airports has the potential to reduce the risk of a potential pandemic by 24-69 percent. The researchers also identified ten critical airports, central to the global air-transportation network, and if hand-washing mitigation strategies are implemented in just these ten locations, the pandemic risk can drop by up to 37 percent.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news