Coronavirus: What's the risk of flying or taking the train?
As coronavirus continues to spread, some governments have restricted travel while, elsewhere, individual travellers have been taking their own precautions.
So a lot of the potential risk of infection on trains and buses depends on how crowded they are, and this will vary in different parts of the country and on different routes. And cleaning will be a factor too. Network Rail says it is continuing with its"business as usual" cleaning schedule but is making plans for extra, specialist cleans of stations and trains if necessary.
Currently, the UK government is not telling people to avoid public transport. David Nabarro, a special adviser on coronavirus for the World Health Organization , told the BBC that although public transport was an important thing to look at, the evidence suggested that the kind of"fleeting contacts" people have when travelling together didn't so far seem to be the"most important source of transmission".
The filter sucks in fresh air from outside and mixes it with the air already in the cabin, meaning that at any one time half the air is fresh and half is not. Many ordinary air-conditioning systems merely re-circulate the same air to save energy.
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