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Covid-19 lasts on skin for 9 hours, but ethanol sanitiser inactivates in 15 seconds – Japan scientists – CosmeticsDesign-Asia.com
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causing the COVID-19 outbreak was found to survive on human skin for as long as nine hours, alt…
Contact transmission through human skin is considered a significant risk factor in the spread of SARS-CoV-2.
There have been other reports studying the stability of SARS-CoV-2 on various surfaces from slaughterhouses, food manufacturing facilities, and even meat, but there had previously no studies on human skin as of yet.
Application of pathogenic and infectious agents to live human subjects is dangerous and not clinically feasible, hence researchers from Japan developed a model to evaluate t…
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