ኮሮና ቫይረስ ለስንት ጊዜ ይቆያል? How long coronavirus lasts on surfaces?

 is how long coronavirus lasts on surfaces

U.S. health officials recently confirmed that packages from China aren’t a potential source of coronavirus. Why?

Well, viruses in the coronavirus family don’t survive on surfaces very long. Considering it takes a few days to a few weeks for packages to make it to the U.S. from China, any remnants of the virus would be long gone before the packages landed on your doorstep… even if a sneezing coronavirus-carrying person prepared your package in China. The only way you can catch the virus is through respiratory droplets directly from another person.

That said, this particular coronavirus is a new breed. And scientists don’t exactly know how resilient it is. But the viruses it’s most similar to — severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) — only last a few hours on object surfaces. So, chances are, this virus has the same shelf life.

That means packages from China are perfectly safe… at least when it comes to coronavirus. There are plenty of other risks to buying stuff online from China, like getting counterfeit items, products that don’t conform to U.S. safety standards, problems getting refunds… but that’s a whole other story.

Regardless, we may begin to see fewer packages or goods, in general, making their way from China. According to a CNN Business report, both shipping and air cargo out of China has been disrupted as many factories are shutting down and workers staying home to prevent the further spread of the virus in China. However, UPS and FedEx said they continue to fly into and out of China, even though UPS reports they are seeing reduced demand for its services as a result of business closures.