Viruses are everywhere!

To date, more than 112 million people have been newly infected and nearly 2.49 million have died from the disease.

As people have to live with the virus for a long time, the characteristics of Xinkuan are constantly being revealed.
A new study has found that the virus can survive on clothing materials for up to three days.
If during this time the clothing contact other surfaces and spread again, I do not know what the consequences will be!

During the epidemic, many people would disinfect, wash their hands and change their masks after going out, but they did not pay much attention to the clothes they wore outside.
Especially in winter, many coats and sweaters can not be cleaned every time they wear them.

Researchers at De Montfort University (DMU) in the UK, for example, have studied how long coronaviruses survive on a variety of fabrics in an attempt to increase understanding of the virus.

The results showed that the virus remained for 6 hours on polyester-cotton fabrics, survived for 2 days on pure cotton clothing, and even infected virus particles still existed after 3 days on polyester fibers!

The study used HCoV-OC43 coronavirus, which is very similar to SARS-CoV-2, which causes CoviD-19.
The researchers observed how long the virus stayed on the surfaces by dropping the virus onto various textile materials.

This finding is even more alarming, considering that polyester, 100% cotton and polyester, which are common in everyday clothing, are so susceptible to the virus, even though we’ve all worn them at some point!

They are also the most commonly used textiles in sanitary Settings, with many medical staff wearing uniforms made of such materials.
And considering that they are the people most likely to be exposed to the virus, the risk of transmission seems to increase dramatically!

Dr Laird, head of the infectious disease research group at the DMU, warned: “If a healthcare worker wears a uniform home, they may be able to carry the virus onto other surfaces in the home that are stuck to the uniform material.

To reduce this risk, the team also assessed how best to safely remove the virus from clothing surfaces.

They repeated the tests using 100% cotton textiles at different water temperatures and washing methods, including home washing machines, industrial washing machines, hospital washing machines, and ozone or highly reactive gas washing systems.

Under normal conditions, the agitation and dilution of the water in these machines was enough to remove the virus.
But in the fabric has been contaminated with virus saliva, must raise the water temperature to 67 degrees Celsius and with laundry detergent, the virus can be completely eliminated!

DMU’s Dr. Laird also strongly advises health care workers not to take work uniforms home, but to wash them in hospitals or industrial laundries.

“Although contaminated clothing can remove the virus after being washed at high temperatures in a household washing machine, it is possible that it may have previously touched other surfaces in the home and left the virus on them.
“With hospital or industrial laundry, health care workers don’t have to worry about bringing the virus home,” Laird explained.

Some previous studies on the covid have seen the virus linger for a while on a variety of other materials.
For example, the virus can survive for up to 7 days on plastic, 4 days on banknotes and glass, 2-3 days on stainless steel, and 2 days on wood!

So look, novel coronavirus this immaterial killer is hidden all around all the time simply, wait for the body that invades people carelessly.
It seems that we should be daily to contact things are often clean and disinfected, nip in the bud is more important!