Ministers in the United Kingdom are
reportedly fretting in private over the
possibility COVID-19 is being spread via
farting.
Various news outlets in the UK said the
ministers pointed to evidence that the
virus could be spread by people
breaking wind in confined spaces such
as lavatories.
One said they had read “credible-
looking stuff on it” from other
countries, although government
scientists are yet to produce a paper on
the matter, Yahoo News reported,
quoting The Telegraph .
The source said there had been
evidence of a “genomical-linked tracing
connection between two individuals
from a [lavatory] cubicle in Australia.”
There were also “well-documented cases
of diseases spreading through waste
pipes during lockdowns in Hong Kong
when the U-bend had dried out.”
The science is not definitive, however,
and another minister stated that as
CPVID-19, is “a respiratory disease,
transmission and shedding is mostly
taking place through the mouth and
actually mainly the nose”.
A spokesman for Boris Johnson said he
was not aware of claims that the virus
can be spread by flatulence. The
spokesman added: “We keep the latest
scientific evidence under review.”