Guest Comment: Environmental Transmission and Control of COVID-19 Special Issue

See t.ly/hlr6 — The pandemic of COVID-19 has already lasted for more than one year. Until the end of February 2021, the global number of laboratory-confirmed cases exceeded 110 million, and the associated deaths were more than 2.5 million. Yet, we do not see a clear end although a number of vaccines have been administrated in many countries. The emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants among several countries at the start of 2021 further increases the uncertainty of the development of the pandemic. At the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, ES&T started to plan the special issue of “Environmental…