Wash your hands

So when it comes to the corona virus one of the biggest points of confusion continues to be how it spreads and how long it survives on surfaces and in the air well. COVID-19 commonly known as the corona-virus doesn't get transmitted hanging in the air, it would be transmissible if you instantly touched it and touch your mouth.

 At first it was said that it lasted for a few hours, then three hours and then 8 hours. One of the reasons for that differing information is that the novel corona-virus is novel which means it’s new so lab tests are still underway to figure out how long it lives on surfaces. We don't yet know exactly how COVID-19 spreads from person to person but a lot of scientists hypothesize it happens when we touch things and then touch our faces or when we breathe it in. Researchers used a nebulizer to spray some of the virus into a controlled chamber to see how long the virus lasted on different surfaces. They found it lasted up to four hours on copper. Researchers also chose to test cardboard and they found that the novel coronavirus can live on cardboard for up to twenty-four hours. In this study the virus died on copper in just four hours but it lasted the longest on steel and plastic, up to two to three days and that suggests environments with plenty of hard surfaces could be places for the virus to hang out.

But just because the virus can live on a surface or in the air doesn't mean you will become infected If you contact that surface or that air that's because there are lots of other variables like the temperature, humidity and how much virus it actually takes to infect someone. The best precaution against COVID-19 is still to wash your hands and wear a mask outdoors.

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