Coronavirus can travel twice as far as official ‘safe distance’ and stay in air for 30 minutes, Chinese study finds

The coronavirus that causes Covid-19 can linger in the air for at least 30 minutes and travel up to 4.5 metres – further than the “safe distance” advised by health authorities around the world, according to a study by a team of Chinese government epidemiologists.

The researchers also found that it can last for days on a surface where respiratory droplets land, raising the risk of transmission if unsuspecting people touch it and then rub their face.

The length of time it lasts on the surface depends on factors such as temperature and the type of surface, for example at around 37C (98F), it can survive for two to three days on glass, fabric, metal, plastic or paper.

Nature - totes uncool, yo.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3074351/coronavirus-can-travel-twice-far-official-safe-distance-and-stay

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ZedsLeppelin2 · 61-69, F

You sheep who keep on believing whatever your "msm" and Democrat politicians TELL YOU, are now in a FULL BLOWN PANIC this month BECAUSE your DEM LEADERS have told you all that it's the Coronavirus that's NOW going to KILL US ALL if President Trump is re-elected, lol while smh.
I live in a blue liberal state, where I have a 15 yr old who attends my city's Public HS, and her and her friends are NOT concerned at all or worried about contracting the Conoravirus because their parents are COMMON SENSE people (not liberals), therefore they go about their daily life as TEENAGERS not being worried about dying due to CLIMATE CHANGE or this virus.
Eh yet you sadly are wasting your time as a young adult, NAIEVLY believing just another fear mongering tactic by the left to regain POWER.

Back when I was 12/13 yrs old in Junior High back in the 70's, we as kids were told that IF we and our parents didn't change our way of living(going green by no longer using paper bags and to instead use plastic bags TO SAVE THE PLANET), because the next ICE AGE would soon be upon us all, by us KILLING THE PLANET if we use brown paper bags!!!!

Eh NOW their mantra is... that if we use PLASTIC BAGS we're contributing to KILLING THE PLANET, so we now are forced to use brown paper bags(that back in the 70's were supposedly killing the planet) to SAVE THE PLANET lol!!!!!

#Liberalism IS a MENTAL DISORDER.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@ZedsLeppelin2 First, this is a hilariously unhinged rant. Second - those ultra-liberal Chinese researchers 😂