During this Covid-19 pandemic, however far we have come we are still struggling with the facts that there still remains major ventilation problems at the hospitals and other buildings.
Hospitals and schools both have been the major cause of concern when it comes to indoor air quality check — the indoor air quality is still largely unregulated.
There have been debates that the governments need to be monitoring indoor air and enforcing standards to reduce the health cost of poor indoor air quality, something that already occurs with outdoor air quality. The problem however is that there are no nationally agreed standards for indoor air quality. The findings also suggests that less than 20 countries — several European and Asian countries — have national indoor air quality standards and most are not enforceable.
Also, the other issue is that the desire to save on energy costs has often compromised indoor air quality, especially in tightly sealed buildings. Just as we spent a huge amount of money in the 19th century to sewer towns, we’re going to have to spend a lot of money to make sure our buildings have clean, safe, fresh air in them.
