2020-10-19T15:30:01+00:00

Study: Covid-19 survives five times longer on skin than flu

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Japanese researchers have found that the SARS-CoV-2 virus strain can survive for nine hours on human skin, while the flu survives 1.8 hours.

They state that "the longer survival of SARS-CoV-2 on the skin increases contact-transmission risk", though "hand hygiene can reduce this risk".

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Source: japantimes.co.jp

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