New study: Coronavirus can live for a long time in high temperatures

According to a new study published in recent days, the new coronavirus can survive exposure to temperatures up to 60 ° C for long periods of time.

These findings suggest that standard measures used to disinfect research laboratories, such as heating to such a temperature for an hour, are not effective against COVID-19.


Instead, to kill the pathogen, the researchers found that they had to raise the temperature to 92 ° C for 15 minutes.

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Aix-Marseille, in the Provence region of southern France.

In their tests, the scientists used kidney cells from an African monkey, a standard material for viral activity tests, which were infected with coronavirus.