The new coronavirus can survive on the surface of human skin for around nine hours, some five times the period influenza can, a team of researchers in Japan has found.
The researchers, including epidemiology specialist Ryohei Hirose, a research associate at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, additionally found that if the new coronavirus is exposed to alcohol-based disinfectant or ethanol of the same concentration, the virus is deactivated within 15 seconds.
As a result, Hirose is calling for people to thoroughly wash their hands or use alcohol-based disinfectant.
This would be really helpful article, Researchers in Japan found that the novel coronavirus can live on human skin for nine hours compared to the influenza virus that only lasts about two hours on skin. Dr. Mallika Marshall has the latest on this study. what we can do is disinfect always. thanks for sharing it.
That is good to know, makes me feel less neurotic that whilst shielding since last March the only places I have been are hospitals and doctors and each time as soon as I get home sanitised shoes and handbag, clothes in the washer, showered and hair washed just in case I had picked up anything that may have been in the air. Thank you 2 greys.
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