1 – COVID-19 lasts on skin for 9 hours, but ethanol sanitiser inactivates in 15 seconds – Japan scientists
In October, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causing the COVID-19 outbreak was found to survive on human skin for as long as nine hours, although it can be inactivated by ethanol within 15 seconds.
Contact transmission through human skin is considered a significant risk factor in the spread of SARS-CoV-2.
There had been other reports studying the stability of SARS-CoV-2 on various surfaces from slaughterhouses, food manufacturing facilities, and even meat, but there had been no studies on human skin.
Application of pathogenic and infectious agents to live human subjects is dangerous and not clinically feasible, hence researchers from Japan developed a model to evaluate the stability of the pathogen, using human skin obtained from forensic autopsy specimens ay Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine.
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