study, published in a journal of Oxford Academic in Clinical Infectious Diseases on Oct. 3, was a joint effort among the university’s Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and Department of Forensics Medicine aimed to highlight the importance of handwashing during the COVID-19 pandemic.Since directly applying a highly contagious pathogen to the skin of a living human is dangerous, according to the study, human cadavers one day after death were used to conduct the test.According to the researchers, the flu virus can survive on human skin for 1.8 hours.RELATED: Company develops device that detects contaminants after hand-washing“The 9-h survival of SARS-CoV-2 on human skin may increase the.