The World Health Organization (WHO) indicated that people can catch COVID-19 from others who have the virus. The disease spreads primarily from person to person through small droplets from the nose or mouth, which are expelled when a person with COVID-19 coughs, sneezes, or speaks. These droplets are relatively heavy, do not travel far, and quickly sink to the ground. People can catch COVID-19 if they breathe in these droplets from a person infected with the virus.1
The virus is also highly transmissible. Both observed experience and emerging scientific evidence show that the virus causing COVID-19 is significantly more transmissible than seasonal flu.2