Expert - Under right conditions 2019-nCov coronavirus can survive 5 days outside the body - Wash Your Hands and Clean Surfaces!

[kiwibird]

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3870656
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A Chinese health expert revealed that the novel coronavirus originating in Wuhan can survive five days outside of the human body and urged members of the public to wash their hands frequently for their own protection.

Jiang Rongmeng (蔣榮猛), a doctor at the Ditan Hospital in Beijing and a member of the National Health Commission of China, said that the coronavirus 2019-nCoV can live up to five days at the right temperatures and humidity levels, reported CCTV. He made the revelation at a news briefing on Hubei Province’s effort to fight the spread of the illness on Monday (Feb. 3).

An ambient temperature of 20 degrees Celsius plus a humidity level of 40 to 50 percent are conducive to the survival of the Wuhan virus, Jiang said.
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also multiple reports from same expert. https://www.msn.com/zh-tw/news/world/武漢肺炎延燒-中國專家病毒存活時間可以達到5天/ar-BBZCu31

 

[sharon sanders]

here is a snip from the Hubei province news conference:

[h=2]Press Conference on "Prevention and Control of New Coronavirus Infected Pneumonia" Session 13[/h]
2020-02-04 15:45  |  Hubei Provincial People's Government Website

• Reporter from Jingchu.com: How long can the virus survive in the air? How will fecal-oral transmission be controlled? Are there new ways of transmission that have not yet been discovered or made public?
• Jiang Rongmeng, a member of the expert group of the National Health and Health Committee and the chief physician of the second department of infection at Beijing Ditan Hospital:
• First of all, the virus is transmitted through droplets or contact. Droplets generally pass through coughing and sneezing. Its spread distance in the air is limited, usually a distance of one or two meters. It quickly subsides out of the body. It will float in the air. In this sense, he will not have viruses in the air, and there is no question of how long the virus will survive.
• Since the droplets can settle, the surface of the surrounding objects, or viruses, may be contaminated by our hands, which will pollute the surfaces of the objects we come in contact with. For example, door handles, elevator buttons, viruses can contaminate this. Studies have now found that the virus can survive for hours on smooth surfaces, and that it can survive for several days if the temperature and humidity are appropriate. For example, in a 20-degree environment with a humidity of 40% -50%, studies have shown that the new coronavirus can survive for up to five days. That is to say, if a person sneezes, if they do not pay attention to cover, he will have viruses. The viruses will contaminate the door handles and the elevator buttons. If the next person does not wash his hands, he rubs his eyes and picks his nose. Way to spread. The droplets of infectious diseases of the respiratory tract are often transmitted by hand. Please wash your hands. This is a very important point.
• The other is the way of transmission. The fecal-oral route, although it is said that the nucleic acid of the virus has been found in the stool of some patients, but the virus has not yet been isolated. This is a further situation and will be observed in the future. Even if there is a virus, the way of transmitting through the feces mouth has not yet been confirmed. I think this is to explain to everyone, because the feces mouth should mean that the feces contaminate water or food, and then cause people to drink water. Going in, or eating food, causing transmission, which is called fecal mouth transmission. At present, we have not found any cases transmitted through this method. I think this will explain to you.
• As for there are other ways, we want to spread the disease. If you follow this route of transmission, textbooks say that there are many ways to spread through the respiratory tract, through the digestive tract, through blood, through sexual transmission, etc. But as far as I understand infectious diseases, in fact, there is only one way to spread infectious diseases, that is, contact. In other words, a person must be exposed to the pathogen to be infected. This contact means, for example, infection through mucosal contact, contact with the mucous membrane through one's hand, or blood transfusion from another person to another person causing the infection. So I think that as long as there is no contact, the spread of this infectious disease can be interrupted.

http://wjw.hubei.gov.cn/fbjd/dtyw/202002/t20200204_2019146.shtml