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How long can Covid-19 survive outside the body?

24 March 2020

Professor Deenan Pillay (UCL Infection & Immunity) explains that viruses need to be inside another cell to survive, and how estimates of the length of time Covid-19 coronavirus can survive are based on analysis of related viruses such as SARS, as well as original research.

Listen: Guardian Science Weekly