Government advice to remain two metres apart from others may not be enough to protect people from contracting Covid-19 during windy weather, according to a new study.

Scientists who carried out the research, published in the journal Physics of Fluids, found that the risk of transmitting the coronavirus increases in the wind.

The study revealed that saliva droplets can travel further than usual upon even the lightest of winds. For example, in a breeze of only four kilometres per hour, they can travel up to 18 feet in only five seconds.

Explaining the different risk factors for someone’s exposure to such droplets, Professor Dimitris Drikakis, the author of the study and Vice President for Global Partnerships at the University of Nicosia in Cyprus, said, “Shorter adults and children could be at higher risk if they are located within the trajectory of the traveling saliva droplets.”…