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Confirm How Long Coronavirus Lives On Surfaces

Researchers from the United States determined that it can stay up to three days on plastic and stainless steel. The importance of disinfection. Disinfecting surfaces is another important strategy to curb the coronavirus and a new study will confirm this. Research by the National Institutes of Health and several American universities such as the University of California Los Angeles and Princeton University evaluated how long the virus survives in different materials. Coronavirus The researchers found that the virus can live for two to three days on plastic and stainless steel surfaces. In others, such as cardboard, up to 24 hours. In copper, less: four. And it was also detectable in aerosols in up to three hours. These results provide key information about the stability of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus , which causes COVID-19 , and also how people can get it from the air and from touching contaminated objects. And it also allowed scientists to compare this coronavir