{"id":365041,"date":"2020-07-28T10:42:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T05:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=365041"},"modified":"2020-07-28T11:06:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T05:36:32","slug":"bengaluru-hepa-filters-suck-out-coronavirus-in-cabin-assure-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bengaluru-hepa-filters-suck-out-coronavirus-in-cabin-assure-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru: HEPA filters suck out coronavirus in cabin, assure airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How safe is air travel in Covid times since the cabin is a confined space? As this anxiety lowers flight occupancy rates, international airlines are now beckoning travelers with a safety fix: High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filters that are claimed to suck out 99% of airborne contaminants in the cabin. <\/p>\n<p>Leading the information campaign is Emirates with this statement: \u201cCabin air is extracted into the air conditioning unit through HEPA filters that remove 99.9% of microscopic particles such as bacteria viruses, and fungi from the air-as effective as the filters used in hospital operation theatres.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Much before the Covid-19 outbreak, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) had come out with a briefing on HEPA in 2018:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How safe is air travel in Covid times since the cabin is a confined space? As this anxiety lowers flight occupancy rates, international airlines are now beckoning travelers with a safety fix: High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filters that are claimed to suck out 99% of airborne contaminants in the cabin. Leading the information campaign is Emirates with this statement: \u201cCabin air is extracted into the air conditioning unit through HEPA filters that remove 99.9% of microscopic particles such as bacteria viruses, and fungi from the air-as effective as the filters used in hospital operation theatres.\u201d Much before the Covid-19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}