https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8100999/Tests-new-virus-lives-surfaces-3-days.html
US government researchers, who worked with other experts, found the deadly infection can live on surfaces for up to three days.
Tests showed the virus can survive on copper for four hours, cardboard for an entire day (24 hours) and up to 72 hours on plastic and steel.
For the study ... researchers used a nebulizer device to put samples of it into the air.
This imitates what might happen if an infected person coughed or made the virus airborne some other way, such as breathing.
They found that viable levels of the virus could be detected up to three hours later in the air.
US government researchers, who worked with other experts, found the deadly infection can live on surfaces for up to three days.
Tests showed the virus can survive on copper for four hours, cardboard for an entire day (24 hours) and up to 72 hours on plastic and steel.
For the study ... researchers used a nebulizer device to put samples of it into the air.
This imitates what might happen if an infected person coughed or made the virus airborne some other way, such as breathing.
They found that viable levels of the virus could be detected up to three hours later in the air.