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How Long Can Coronavirus Survive on Surfaces?
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A team of Australian scientists has discovered that the virus responsible for COVID-19 can survive on the screens of smartphones, ATMs and self-serve checkouts, along with both paper and polymer banknotes for up to 28 days. Which is about seven times longer than previously thought.
Researchers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s peak scientific body, studied the amount of time it took for samples of the coronavirus to become inactive when left on a range of contaminated surfaces and objects, or “fomites”, at the various temperatures of 20 degrees celsius, 30 degrees celsius and 40 degrees celsius.
What they found was that the…
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