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Going the extra
The last 16 months have proved extremely challenging with the COVID-19 pandemic. Maintaining good indoor air quality (IAQ) and reducing COVID spread are essential both at home and when in other indoor environments where transmission rates are far higher than outdoors.
A raſt of research confirms COVID is airborne and the positive effect of ventilation in tackling transmission. Lena Hebestreit,Marketing Manager at Vent-Axia, explains more on using ventilation to fight COVID, and how electrical wholesalers are ideally placed to act as a source of information for their customers.
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ince early in the pandemic ventilation has been in the news. At a COVID-19 briefing on 29 April 2020, Deputy Chief
Medical Officer, Professor Jonathan Van- Tam confirmed that ventilation lowers transmission rates from respiratory viruses. He stated: “There is a definite truism across all of the science literature, that ventilation is a most critical part of reducing transmission from respiratory viruses.” Sixteen months on, it is widely recognised that
ventilation is vital to help reduce COVID-19 transmission and so the ventilation sector has been much in demand. Public Health England guidance acknowledges airborne transmission can occur in ‘poorly ventilated’ spaces and the Government’s public information campaign highlights how ventilating indoor spaces can reduce the risk of coronavirus infection by over
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70%1. A recent article in the British Medical Journal, ‘Covid-19 has redefined airborne transmission’2, emphasises the importance of reducing spread by focussing on tackling close airborne transmission of the virus. Furthermore, an article in the journal Science co-authored by Professor Cath Noakes, an environmental engineer at the University of Leeds, calls for improvements in building design and ventilation to stop the spread of infection and a revolution in how governments regulate indoor air quality. Add this together and it’s clear that improving ventilation is key and wholesalers are playing an important part in informing customers.
Electrical wholesalers The electrical industry has been going the extra mile during the pandemic. As an ‘essential
service’ it continued to operate throughout. This meant speeding up supply to essential projects such as COVID-19 hospital wards and field hospitals to provide good levels of ventilation. Here the electrical supply chain worked as a team to deliver products in exceptional timescales. As well as supplying installers with vital
ventilation products, electrical wholesalers have also been able to keep electricians up-to- date with the latest information on tackling COVID with ventilation. To help with this Vent- Axia produced a useful guide called 'The Effect of Ventilation on COVID-19’ which brings together guidance and information on using ventilation to reduce virus transmission, which can be used by wholesalers to educate their customers. Vent- Axia also created a companion webpage at
https://www.vent-axia.com/dilutethevirus.
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