Coronavirus can survive on chilled salmon for eight days, study claims

[Chris Smith]

• The novel coronavirus can survive on chilled salmon for eight days, according to a new study from China.
• The research follows recent coronavirus outbreaks in China and New Zealand that were linked to food packaging.
• The scientists explain that the virus can survive on fish skin at temperatures as low as 39 degrees Fahrenheit for long enough to travel between countries.

When COVID-19 hit Beijing several weeks after the last confirmed case of novel coronavirus infection, authorities believed the virus might have come from salmon. Tests showed traces of the virus in a market in the Chinese capital, and officials halted salmon sales in the city, briefly pausing commercial agreements with countries that supply the fish. After the initial panic, it was clear that fish wasn’t spreading the virus. Food isn’t a means of transmission for COVID-19. But we’ve also known for months that the virus can survive for days on certain surfaces and linger in the air for hours.

A few weeks after that, authorities in New Zealand and China found evidence of coronavirus traveling via food packaging again. This prompted the World Health Organization to make it clear one more time that transmission via food isn’t possible. This brings us to the most recent development on the matter, a study from China that indicates the virus can survive on chilled salmon for up to eight days.

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