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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Lucy Thackray

Tube ‘low risk’ for catching Covid, study finds

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The London Underground and similar metro lines have been deemed “low risk” for transmission of Covid-19 in a new study.

The joint study by Leeds University, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) and Manchester University found that the risk of commuters contracting the virus on underground train carriages - previously feared to be a “super spreader” environment - was “likely to be quite low”.

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