Evidences of airborne spread of SARS CoV2 in Indoor Air

The novel corona virus pandemic is spreading worldwide at an unprecedented rate. It is a respiratory virus that causes pneumonia-like symptoms, eventually leading to deaths in immunocompromised patients. Aerosols are reported to be the carrier of this deadly virus. Incidences of co-infections along with COVID-19 disease are testified to aggravate the SARS CoV2 infection due to possible mutations and recombination events with other human coronaviruses. This has hampered both vaccine development and antiviral efficacy testing. There is currently no data available about the viruses present in the aerosols in Kuwait. Advanced molecular methods are the state-of-the-art technology to estimate the viral populations in environmental samples. With the advent of RNA based multi array qPCR (quantitative PCR), other respiratory viruses (that is, RNA viruses, DNA viruses) present in an environmental sample could be simultaneously revealed. Multiplex qPCR in field settings proved critical in the development of countermeasures for the COVID-19 infections in China. The high throughput next generation sequencing is also a gold standard method for viral community profiling. Recently WHO, in its interim guidelines, suggested to perform related species testing along with COVID-19