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Coronavirus 'can survive at 92°C' - raising concerns that hot washes won't kill bug
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With worldwide coronavirus cases now at over 2.7 million, concerns about the disease are now widespread. While many experts have advised that washing your clothes on a hot wash can help to kill the bug, a new study suggests that this isn’t the case.
The study, led by researchers at Aix-Marseille University, found that the virus can actually survive at temperatures up to 92°C.
In the study, the team used cells from a coronavirus patient in Berlin to test the environments in which it could survive. As part of one test, the researchers slowly heated the cells to 60°C.
The results showed that the virus could survive and replicate at this temperature in non-sterile environments. The researchers then heated the virus further to 92°C, and found
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