Remember to keep washing your hands: the coronavirus remains active on human skin for nine hours, according to Japanese researchers
Additional reporting by Andrea Saadan
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 the study published this month in the Clinical Infectious Diseases journal.