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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Donna Lu

Australian scientist who alerted world that Covid is airborne wins top science prize

Prof Lidia Morawska, who won the prime minister’s prize for science
Prof Lidia Morawska has won the $250,000 prime minister’s prize for science for her pioneering research about the air we breathe. Photograph: The Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science

When the World Health Organization announced – incorrectly, as became apparent later – in March 2020 that the Covid-19 virus was not airborne, Prof Lidia Morawska knew she had to do something.

A renowned expert in air quality and health, Morawska, of the Queensland University of Technology, began contacting international colleagues. She eventually gathered 239 scientists globally to highlight the risk of airborne transmission of Sars-CoV-2.

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