To prevent COVID-19, you need to be careful regarding food management.
A study has found that the coronavirus can survive on frozen meat and fish for up to 30 days. The study, conducted with packaged meat suspected to be the source of the virus related to the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), was conducted on frozen chicken, beef and fish.
According to a research team at Campbell University in the US, this experiment did not use the actual virus that causes COVID-19, but instead used viruses that are cousins of the coronavirus with similar protein spikes. The researchers placed these viruses in frozen meat and fish and then stored them both in the refrigerator (4 degrees Celsius) and the freezer (-20 degrees Celsius).
Emily Bailey, a professor of public health at the research team, said, “Meat and fish can be stored in the freezer for a long time, regarding a month, so we conducted the experiment in both the refrigerator and the freezer. I found that there is.”
“The results of this study are important because the coronavirus can reproduce in the gut as well as the respiratory tract,” the team said. The team used three virus strains in this study, including two animal coronaviruses. All three of these viruses have been used in place of coronaviruses in previous studies.
“This study highlights the importance of strict sanitation in the harvesting, transportation, packaging and distribution of food,” said the research team. This is necessary, and care must be taken to disinfect food before packaging,” he said. The findings of the study (Persistence of Coronavirus Surrogates on Meat and Fish Products during Long-Term Storage) are published in Allied and Environmental Microbiology.
By Kwon Soon-il, staff reporter [email protected]
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