Jabatan ini ingin berkongsi penerbitan baru-baru ini mengenai penyelidikan COVID-19 dari usaha bersama beberapa penyelidik dari institusi yang berbeza untuk mencari pembawa virus Sars-CoV-2 di wad hospital. Diketuai oleh Dr Mohd Shahrul Mohd Nadzir dari Jabatan Sains Bumi dan Alam Sekitar bersama dengan Prof. Madya Dr Nazlina Ibrahim dan Dr Norefrina Shafinaz Md Nor dari JSBB, kumpulan penyelidikan ini telah mengumpulkan sampel udara dari wad hospital dan menggunakan qRT-PCR untuk mengesan RNA virus dari membran filter. Menurut mereka, virus boleh melekat pada zarah 2.5 (PM2.5) di atmosfera wad. Walau bagaimanapun, kapasiti virus pada PM2.5 barangkali dipengaruhi oleh jumlah pesakit, gejala dan rekabentuk wad. Klik pautan untuk mendapatkan artikel Particulate matter (PM2.5) as a potential SARS-CoV-2 carrier (2020) Scientific reports.

The team comprise of: Norefrina Shafinaz Md Nor, Chee Wai Yip & Nazlina Ibrahim (Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia UKM, 43600, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia) Mohd Hasni Jaafar (Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Medical Centre, 56000, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) Zetti Zainol Rashid (Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Medical Centre, 56000, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) Norlaila Mustafa (Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Medical Centre, 56000, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) Haris Hafizal Abd Hamid, Mohd Talib Latif & Mohd Shahrul Mohd Nadzir (Department of Earth Sciences and Environment, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia) Phei Er Saw & Kemal Maulana Alhasa (Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Malignant Tumor Epigenetics and Gene Regulation, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510120, People’s Republic of China) Kuhan Chandru (Institute of Climate Change, Space Science Centre (ANGKASA), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia) Chin Yik Lin (Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) Jamal Hisham Hashim (Department of Environmental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Selangor, 40000, Shah Alam, Malaysia) Contributions M.S.M.N. conceptualized the idea. M.S.M.N., N.S.M.N., N.I., K.C. and Z.Z.R. aided in the study design. M.S.M.S. performed indoor air sampling procedures. M.S.M.N. drew the wards layout. N.S.M.N., C.W.Y. and N.I. did the qRT-PCR and rRT-PCR analyses. M.S.M.N., N.S.M.N., K.C., C.W.Y., and C.Y.L. wrote the early and the latest versions of the manuscript. All authors contributed equally to the data analysis and interpretations. All authors co-wrote the final version of the paper.

Corresponding authors: Nazlina Ibrahim or Mohd Shahrul Mohd Nadzir.