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Live coronavirus found on frozen food packaging in China (theguardian.com)
3 points by bookofjoe on Oct 20, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



>Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention isolated live new coronavirus in cold chain food packaging

http://www.chinacdc.cn/yw_9324/202010/t20201017_222144.html


It can infect Vero E6 cells or equivalent, given they said it's "live". But is this enough to infect someone?

The answer is, AFAICS, "unknown". I'm surprised a lot of studies of "virus persistence on surface X" don't (yet) do animal experiments to confirm there's enough to infect something else than cells growing in a monolayer (which don't have physical barriers or other aspecific defense mechanisms).

OTOH, current (scarce) evidence still points at fomite transmission to be not very prevalent at the very least.




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