BRAKINGS ‘COVID-19 may be spread through farting in confined spaces’

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.”