Does coronavirus live on paper?
Scientists and health experts have confirmed that newspapers are not transmitters of Covid-19, due to both the ink and the printing process that they go through.
Virologist George Lomonossoff, recently told BBC Radio Scotland: “Newspapers (like The Advertisers)
are pretty sterile because of the way they are printed and the process they’ve been through (to be produced).”
“Newspapers are pretty sterile because of the way they are printed and the process they’ve been through,” said George Lomonossoff, a virologist at the John Innes Centre in the UK. “Traditionally, people have eaten fish and chips out of them for that very reason. So all of the ink and the print makes them actually quite sterile. The chances of being infected are infinitesimal.”
Speaking on Good Morning Britain last week, GP and health broadcaster, Dr Hilary Jones, also said: "For public health information right now it's important people have access to information through newspapers.”
He added: "If someone physically picks them up and delivers them to a doorstep or letterbox it's safe."
WHO adds: “The likelihood of an infected person contaminating commercial goods is low and the risk of catching the virus that causes Covid-19 from a package that has been moved, travelled, and exposed to different conditions and temperature is also low”.
This reassurance also extends to both Royal Mail and Amazon packages.
Source: Twosides.info
