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Coronavirus Found in Lungs of Victim During Autopsy a Month after Death – Newsweek
The case has implications for the disposal of dead bodies and protocols should be reviewed, scientists say.
Coronavirus can be found in dead human tissue after almost a month, scientists have found. After performing an autopsy on a COVID-19 victim 27 days after death, researchers in the U.K. found SARS-CoV-2 present in the lungs, despite a nasal and throat swab taken after death testing negative for the virus.
The researchers, writing in BMJ Case Reports, say the discovery “may have a significant effect on the handling of laboratory specimens as well as the disposal of the dead body and these protocols…
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