Coronavirus is known to spread through respiratory droplets, and now a new study has revealed just how far these droplets can travel after a single sneeze.
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have filmed slow motion footage of a sneeze, revealing how droplets can travel up to 27 feet (8.2 metres) through the air.
In the study, the team filmed a healthy person sneezing, slowing the footage down from 25 seconds to 1.5 minutes. This slow motion footage showed that respiratory droplets can travel at impressive seeds of up to 100 feet/second.
This creates a ‘turbulent’ cloud of droplets, that can reach between 23 feet and 27 feet away. Worryingly, this is significantly further than the current UK social distancing limits,