Hopes that the coronavirus outbreak might come to an end as warmer weather kills off the Covid-9 virus might be too optimistic, according to a new report from researchers at the University of Aix-Marseille in France.
The researchers say they tested the effect of heat on the virus in both “clean” laboratory conditions and natural “dirty” environments.
Even very high temperatures seemed to have little effect. Deliberately infected African green monkey kidney cells placed in a 140-degree Fahrenheit room remained infected But a confidential briefing on the researchers’ results, leaked to Yahoo News, does offer some that the summer weather could create harsher conditions for the virus because – according to the report – “sunlight destroys the