Hallelujah! Public health experts explain Sydney church SARS-CoV-2 spread

Investigators say the virus was probably spread via airborne transmission

Hymn singing most likely sparked an outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 infection through airborne transmission of the virus in a Sydney church last year, researchers say.

A team of public health physicians and epidemiologists have described in forensic detail how an 18-year-old choir singer positive for SARS-CoV-2 unwittingly spread the virus to church parishioners seated up to 15 metres away.