SARS-CoV-2 surveillance with environmental surface sampling in public areas.
Contaminated surfaces are one of the ways that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) may be transmitted.SARS-CoV-2 can be detected on environmental surfaces; however, few environmental sampling studies have been conducted in nonclinical settings.The objective of this study was to detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA on environmental surfaces in public areas in Las