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Study shows how long coronavirus survives on skin – AlKhaleej Today
Study shows how long coronavirus survives on skin
The new coronavirus survives on human skin five times longer than an influenza virus, 9 hours versus 1.8 hours, according to the study published in the scientific journal Clinical Infectious Diseases Journal. The 9 hour lifespan of SARS-CoV-2 on human skin increases the risk of transmission by contact with respect to the influenza virus, accelerating the pandemic, state the Japanese researchers.
They studied the resistance of the virus on the skin of recently deceased people. Both the coronavi…
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