Airborne transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is only limited to specific closed settings such as restaurants and hospitals, the Department of Health (DoH) said on Saturday, agreeing with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) earlier acknowledgment that the virus might be spread in the air under certain conditions.

A COVID-19 testing associate dressed in personal protective equipment (PPE) watches a man cough into his arm as part of a self-administered test at a testing center at Lincoln Park amid the coronavirus pandemic on July 07, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP

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