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Coronavirus survives on skin five times longer than flu: study
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Coronavirus survives on skin five times longer than flu: study

OCTOBER 18, 2020 SARS-CoV-2 (shown here in an electron microscopy image). The coronavirus remains active on human skin for nine hours, Japanese researchers have found, in a discovery they said showed the need for frequent hand washing to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The pathogen that causes the flu survives on human skin for about 1.8 hours by comparison, said...