STUDY: Coronavirus can survive in the air for hours, days on surfaces

And this is why the global financial markets will not rest until there is a vaccine for the Wuhan coronavirus or the cases come down.

According to a new study, Covid-19 can survive on surfaces for up to several days, which dispels initial reports that it cannot live on surfaces.

Here is what CNBC is reporting:

The new coronavirus can survive for several hours in air particles and last days on surfaces, according to a new federally funded study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UCLA, and Princeton University examined how long COVID-19 survives in the air as well as on copper, cardboard, plastic, and stainless steel and then compared it with SARS, the coronavirus that emerged in late 2002 and killed nearly 800 people.

They found that COVID-19 was detectable in aerosols for up to three hours, up to four hours on copper, and up to 24 hours on cardboard. The new coronavirus can also last up to three days on plastic and stainless steel, the scientists concluded, adding the amount of the virus left on those surfaces decreases over time.

This comes after the World Health Organization (WHO) dominated international headlines on Tuesday when it confirmed that the coronavirus can survive in the air.

This also comes soon after the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) warned that half the population will be infected with the coronavirus.

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