Tests performed by scientists in the U.S. also found that the virus can be detected up to three hours in the air.
can live in the air for several hours and on some surfaces for as long as two to three days, tests by U.S. government and other scientists have found.Wednesday, suggests that the virus can spread through the air as well as from touching things that were contaminated by others who have it, in addition to direct person-to-person contact.
For this study, researchers used a nebulizer device to put samples of the new virus into the air, imitating what might happen if an infected person coughed or made the virus airborne some other way.Workers wearing protective suits and respirators wait outside the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., to begin cleaning and disinfecting the facility near Seattle. The nursing home is at the center of the coronavirus outbreak in Washington state.
Similar results were obtained from tests they did on the virus that caused the 2003 SARS outbreak, so differences in durability of the virus do not account for how much more widely the new one has spread, researchers say. The findings have not been reviewed by other scientists yet and were posted on a site where researchers can quickly share their work before publication.
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