id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-313215-diqfmitr Luo, Lei Air and surface contamination in non-health care settings among 641 environmental specimens of 39 COVID-19 cases 2020-07-09 .txt text/plain 1593 90 52 title: Air and surface contamination in non-health care settings among 641 environmental specimens of 39 COVID-19 cases Background Little is known about the SARS-CoV-2 contamination of environmental surfaces and air in non-health care settings among COVID-19 cases. To address this question, in this study, we sampled total of 641 surfaces 63 environmental and air specimens among 39 cases in Guangzhou, China, to explore the 64 surrounding environmental surfaces and air contamination by SARS-CoV-2 in non-65 health care settings. A total of 641 157 environmental surfaces and air specimens were collected among 39 COVID-19 cases, 158 and 20 specimens (20/641, 3.1%) were positive by RT-PCR testing from 9 COVID-19 159 cases (9/39, 23.1%), with 5 (5/101, 5.0%) positive specimens from 3 asymptomatic 160 cases, 5 (5/220, 2.3%) from 3 mild cases, and 10 (10/374, 2.7%) from 3 moderate cases 161 ( of SARS-CoV-2 (Table 2) . ./cache/cord-313215-diqfmitr.txt ./txt/cord-313215-diqfmitr.txt