I am exposed to the cigarette smoke of an unknown person. Should I concern about COVID-19?

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I can understand your concern. According to your statement, you were outside and you had been exposed to some people. And your query is whether you need to keep yourself self-quarantined or not and whether should you be tested for COVID-19 or not.

Well, it is difficult to tell. You have not mentioned here the affected rate of COVID-19 in that specific place. Again you also have not mentioned a specific distance from those people who had passed you by bicycle with smoking. It is said that 6 feet distance should be kept from one person to another person. Again it is also said that exposure time should be at least 15 minutes for being contaminated or affected by a COVID-19-positive patient. Again many people around the world are affected by COVID-19 without any specific clinical symptoms and COVID-19-positive patients are not aware of that.

As you did not know about the person whether they were COVID-19 positive or not, so you should not be worried about that. But according to the present situation, it will be wise for you to undergo antigen or antibody test or rt PCR test for COVID-19 and keep yourself quarantined until your result will reveal negative.