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And if you are wondering how long Coronavirus stays active on everyday surfaces and objects we’ve got the answers for you right here. By surfaces here, we mean desk and table tops, door handles, stair railings, cups and pretty much whatever you can think of. According to Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, when the virus is carried by the droplets released when someone coughs or sneezes, it is able to infect people, in aerosols for at least three hours. Coronavirus Coronavirus Reuters
On plastic, the virus could be detected, and still able to infect a person after three days.
The great project: how Covid changed science for ever Ian Sample A scientist is pictured working during a visit by Britain s Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (unseen), to Oxford Vaccine Group s laboratory facility at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford, west of London on June 24, 2020, on his visit to learn more about the group s work to establish a viable vaccine against coronavirus COVID-19. (Photo by Steve Parsons / POOL / AFP) (Photo by STEVE PARSONS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
For scientists, 5 January was a turning point in the fight against the coronavirus. That day, a team led by Prof Yong-Zhen Zhang at Fudan University in Shanghai sequenced the genetic code of the virus behind Wuhan’s month-long pneumonia outbreak. The process took about 40 hours. Having analysed the code, Zhang reported back to the Ministry of Health. The pathogen was a novel coronavirus similar to Sars, the deadly virus that sparked an epidemic in 2003. People should take precautions, h