Coronavirus can live for four days on animal skin: US military study

The novel coronavirus can live for days on animal skin, according to researchers from the biggest US military bioweapons laboratory.In Fort Detrick, Maryland, army researchers tested the virus on the surface of various substances, including uncirculated paper currency supplied by the US Secret Service and unused cotton-polyester fabric, according to a non-peer-reviewed paper posted on the preprint site medRxiv.org on Friday.They found that of the samples, the virus could survive the longest at…

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