Sports balls as potential SARS-CoV-2 transmission vectors

Public Health in Practice

Peter Davies¹  Sonia Youhanna²  Justin Stebbing³  Joe Thompson⁴  Michel Pelisser⁴  Dasha Majra⁵ 

[1] Corresponding author.;Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden;Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College, London, UK;Phoenix Hospital Group, 25 Harley Street, London, W1G 9QW, UK;The School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK;

关键词: Sports;    SARS-CoV-2;    COVID-19;    Transmission;    Cricket;    Football;   

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【 摘 要 】

Objects passed from one player to another have not been assessed for their ability to transmit severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). We found that the surface of sport balls, notably a football, tennis ball, golf ball, and cricket ball could not harbour inactivated virus when it was swabbed onto the surface, even for 30 ​s. However, when high concentrations of 5000 ​dC/mL and 10,000 ​dC/mL are directly pipetted onto the balls, it could be detected after for short time periods. Sports objects can only harbour inactivated SARS-CoV-2 under specific, directly transferred conditions, but wiping with a dry tissue or moist ‘baby wipe’ or dropping and rolling the balls removes all detectable viral traces. This has helpful implications to sporting events.

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